MIKE DAVIS: The real reason Big Tech is cozying up to Trump 2.0

Now that the particulate has settled connected President Donald Trump’s triumphant instrumentality to power, it is clip to govern. The president has already signed hundreds of enforcement orders tackling issues from immigration to DEI. He is moving non-stop for the American people, and helium is conscionable getting started. This genuinely is simply a caller aureate property for America, a play of technological advancement, prosperity, and peace.

On Nov. 5, 2024, Trump achieved the top comeback successful governmental past against each odds. He did truthful due to the fact that helium and his household had a beardown squad of America First patriots down them. In the years since helium near bureau successful 2020, galore of these patriots faced unemployment, Big Tech censorship, lawfare, and debanking simply due to the fact that they supported Trump and refused to disown him. Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon adjacent went to jailhouse for him. Many woke actors successful firm America played a relation successful canceling these patriots, and Trump knows this. He remembers however successful 2020, firm America flocked to donate millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter, knowing that it was a Marxist organization, but refused to donate to his campaign.

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Today, woke firm America is engaged rebranding itself arsenic MAGA-friendly truthful it tin cozy up to the caller Trump administration. These moves are astatine champion cosmetic. My proposal to the president, the Trump White House and broader medication pursuing these moves? Don’t judge your lying eyes. Big Tech is not your friend. Do not enactment anticipation implicit acquisition and merchantability yourself short. Mark Zuckerberg whitethorn person fixed the Trump inaugural money $1 million, but helium spent $400 cardinal trying to halt Trump successful 2020.

So wherefore is Big Tech cozying up to MAGA similar they are connected a inexpensive date? The reply is easy: antitrust instrumentality enforcement. What Big Tech truly cares astir is not Trump, oregon his family, oregon adjacent the country. What they truly fearfulness is tough, but fair, antitrust enforcement by the Trump administration.

Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos be President Trump's inauguration. (SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Today, Alphabet (Google and YouTube), Amazon, Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp), and Apple are facing major, bipartisan antitrust lawsuits from the Justice Department and FTC. Several of these cases began nether the Trump 45 administration, including 2 cases against Google filed by the Justice Department. The Biden Justice Department won the archetypal case, and the Trump Justice Department is poised to triumph the 2nd case. Google is banking connected the Trump 47 Justice Department pulling its punches connected some cases. They and the different Big Tech platforms desperately privation a instrumentality to the Bush-Obama Uniparty antitrust "enforcement," and they are hoping they tin fool the Trump 47 medication into going there. 

After all, the George W. Bush and Obama administrations enforced the antitrust laws truthful small that they enactment the "Big" successful Big Tech. It was the Obama medication that waved done Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, and it was the Obama White House that forced the Federal Trade Commission to adjacent an aboriginal monopolization probe into Google backmost successful 2013. The Big Tech platforms utilized this uniparty antitrust amnesty to hyperscale and go ascendant successful respective important online markets.

A side-by-side of Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

President Trump is astute capable to cognize a atrocious woody erstwhile helium sees one; helium virtually wrote a publication called "The Art of the Deal." He is besides excessively astute to bargain the statement that Big Tech monopolists indispensable go adjacent bigger and much ascendant successful bid to vie with China. America volition triumph the AI planetary contention the American way, similar it ever has.

Free markets beryllium lone erstwhile antitrust laws are enforced with vigor. Free markets necessitate functioning markets. And erstwhile the trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolists – Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple – crush competition, shutter tiny businesses, cancel those with whom they disagree, and transportation China’s water, we nary longer person functioning and free-markets. We indispensable extremity Big Tech’s gatekeeping powerfulness implicit accusation and commerce.

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There is wide humanities precedent for this: If President Reagan had listened to AT&T successful 1984, we mightiness ne'er person seen the contention and innovation unleashed by the Ma Bell breakup. This innovation included the wireless manufacture and cardinal parts of the aboriginal internet. At the time, the tech elephantine argued that it needed to beryllium a monopoly truthful the U.S. could vie globally with the Soviet Union. Of course, AT&T was wrong, and the Soviet Union crumbled successful 1990. But if Reagan had listened to the institution successful 1984, not lone would helium person been connected the incorrect broadside of history, Americans mightiness ne'er person benefited from the contention and innovation brought astir by antitrust instrumentality enforcement against AT&T.

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President Trump’s antitrust instrumentality enforcers, led by Gail Slater astatine the Trump Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, volition beryllium just and enforce the instrumentality impartially, protecting the U.S. escaped marketplace from woke monopolists and lasting up for American values and American consumers. They volition people the anticompetitive tumors connected the escaped market, which is the other of the industry-wide regulations (market-entry barriers to startup competitors) the Big Tech monopolists (like Facebook) seek.

Uniparty antitrust that favors woke corporations and Big Tech monopolists volition bash the opposite. Big Tech and their allies alongside the DC constitution volition propulsion each soiled instrumentality successful the publication to undermine Trump’s antitrust instrumentality enforcers, but Trump knows better. This is his clip for choosing Trump antitrust implicit uniparty Bush-Obama antitrust. To punctuation Reagan, erstwhile it comes to antitrust, Trump should "dance with the 1 who brung ya."

Mike Davis is the Founder and President of the Article III Project.