WATCH President Trump says Facebook, Amazon and Google were colluding with Democrats against him

I hope those are fighting words. “Americans paid for the internet, we deserve free speech on It.” Federal taxes used, federal law applies. Time to enforce the law.” Daniel Greeefield explains here:

“….the internet is not the work of a handful of aspiring entrepreneurs who built it out of thin air using nothing but their talent, brains and nimble fingers.The internet was the work of DARPA. That stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA is part of the Department of Defense. DARPA had funded the creation of the core technologies that made the internet possible. The origins of the internet go back to DARPA’s Arpanet.

Nor did the story end once the internet had entered every home.

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Where did Google come from? “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,” the original paper by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the co-founders of Google, reveals support from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, and even NASA.

Harvard’s computer science department, where Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg learned to play with the toys that turned him into a billionaire, has also wallowed in DARPA cash. Not to mention funds from a variety of other DOD and Federal science agencies.

Taxpayer sank a fortune into developing a public marketplace where ideas are exchanged, and political advocacy and economic activity takes place. That marketplace doesn’t belong to Google, Amazon or Facebook. And when those monopolies take a stranglehold on the marketplace, squeezing out conservatives from being able to participate, they’re undermining our rights and freedoms.

“A right of free correspondence between citizen and citizen on their joint interests, whether public or private and under whatsoever laws these interests arise (to wit: of the State, of Congress, of France, Spain, or Turkey), is a natural right,” Thomas Jefferson argued.

Watch: CNBC’s full interview with President Donald Trump

Trump says Facebook, Amazon and Google were colluding with Democrats against him

By Lauren Feiner, CNBC, June 10 2019:

President Donald Trump sounded off on the conversation around Big Tech and antitrust issues on Monday in a live interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box. ” Trump also said big tech companies are biased against him.

“I can tell you they discriminate against me,” he said when asked about antitrust scrutiny around companies including Facebook, Amazon and Google. “People talk about collusion. The real collusion is between the Democrats and these companies because they were so against me during my election run. Everybody said if you don’t have them, you can’t win. Well I won, and I’ll win again because we’re doing well and we’re not the fools anymore.”

Trump criticized the European Union’s large fines on American big tech companies, but suggested that antitrust issues are worth exploring, after he was asked about Facebook and antitrust laws.

“They’re actually attacking our companies,” Trump said. “But we should be doing what they’re doing. They think there’s a monopoly but I’m not sure that they think that they just figure this is easy money. We’ll sue Apple for $7 billion and we’ll make a settlement or win the case. So I think it is a bad situation but obviously there is something going on in terms of monopoly. ”

Facebook, Amazon and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump also talked about Huawei and 5G.

When asked whether he views China-based smartphone maker Huawei as a national security threat or leverage in trade negotiations with China, Trump said it could be both.

“I do see it as a threat,” the president said of Huawei. “At the same time, it could be very well that we do something with respect to Huawei as part of our trade negotiation with China.”

The U.S. Justice Department filed charges against Huawei in January, alleging it stole trade secrets from T-Mobile and that Meng Wanzhou, the company’s chief financial officer and daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, committed wire fraud.

Trump said he was optimistic about the nation’s standing on tech compared with China as well as the race to the next generation wireless network known as 5G.

“I made 5G a priority and before I got here we were way behind and now we are actually going to be leading very shortly,” Trump said. “If you look at China. China, as great as they are, and they are great, they don’t have near the capability of our geniuses in Silicon Valley that walk around in undershirts and [are] worth $2 billion. They don’t have nearly the genius that these people have.”

Trump mentioned his administration’s previous actions against Chinese tech company ZTE, which is also known for its smartphone business. In March 2017, the company pleaded guilty to charges that it violated U.S. sanctions on Iran and agreed to pay up to $1.2 billion in fines.

“I don’t want to put their companies out of business,” Trump said. “I want China to do well. I don’t want them to do as well as us, I have to be honest with you.”

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Liatris Spicata

4 years ago

Back in the 1960’s, when LBJ was POTUS, and Dr Frank Stanton was president of CBS (CBS was a very big deal back then), LBJ was mightily perturbed by CBS’ coverage an anti-Vietnam war protests.

One day, Stanton’s secretary received a phone call from the White House, saying that LBJ would like to speak with Dr. Stanton. Shortly thereafter, the call was put through to Stanton, and the caller told him something to the effect of, “Please, sir, hold for the President of the United States.”

After a moment, a nasally Texan drawl posed the following question: “Frank, you tryin’ to f*ck me?”/

Some things never change!

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SoftwareBabeOHIO

4 years ago

The entire story about DARPA is absurd. DARPA DID NOT CREATE THE INTERNET NOR WAS IT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS SUCCESS. The originality came from here: https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet and succeeded by entrepreneurs on BBS’. Darpa may have had a hand in its implementation, but IT WAS NOT ITS AUTHOR. Tesla had an idea, then Paul Otlet and Vannevar Bush conceived of mechanized, searchable storage systems of books and media in the 1930s and 1940s. Still, the first practical schematics for the Internet would not arrive until the early 1960s, when MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized the idea of an “Intergalactic Network” of computers. Shortly thereafter, computer scientists developed the concept of “packet switching,” a method for effectively transmitting electronic data that would later become one of the major building blocks of the Internet.

Vinton Cerf developed Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a communications model that set standards for how data could be transmitted between multiple networks. ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. While it’s often confused with the Internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means of accessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks.

I was one of the people back in the LATE and early 80s, when the ‘internet’ was actually from college to college, via MODEM, until this was expanded to the public. I remember the dial-up as I was attending college, logging onto the college server and submitting my programming code, compiling it, etc.. Then, came the BBS’ where you could long on and download freeware and documents. I had created a program that, during the nite, would dial phone numbers at random, based on area code, looking for that high-pitched tone, to be connected to a BBS. When successful in finding a BBS (specific tone), it logged those phone numbers and printed them out. I made it a public domain program. Then, I became a white hat hacker and soon began to work in a large company as a Server Administrator to thwart breaches, technical writing of manuals, etc..

THE INTERNET SHOULD BE FREE AND WITHOUT PUNISHMENT or RESTRICTION, meaning, yes, you pay your ISP for access, but that is the end of it. NO GOVT OR ISP INVOLVEMENT AFTER THAT. IF THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN and the User is restricted in any way OR THE GOVT GETS INVOLVED, THEN YOU WILL HAVE AN ‘UNDERGROUND’, like the Dark Net that will meet the Consumers’ demands and prevent any LIMITATIONS. If you restrict USERS with limitations placed on the Internet by the govt, then it will never be fair NOR WILL IT EVER BE FREE AGAIN. It will be just like going from Capitalism to Socialism, then eventually COMMUNISM.

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Liatris Spicata

4 years ago

Reply to  SoftwareBabeOHIO

THE INTERNET SHOULD BE FREE AND WITHOUT PUNISHMENT or RESTRICTION …. NO GOVT OR ISP INVOLVEMENT AFTER THAT ….

‘Babe-

I disagree. Now pretty clearly you mean free as in speech, not as in beer, so I am sympathetic to your case.

Nevertheless, I think you greatly overstate the case for an unrestricted Internet, and even miscontrue the notion of freedom. I do not believe you have the “right” to threaten people, nor to I believe you have “right” to distribute child pornography on the ‘Net (or anywhere else, for that matter): people who prey on children that way are among the most despicable of people, in my opinion, and we need laws the protect children from their depredations.

I do not believe you have any right to commit fraud, or to any initiate activity with the goal of perpetrating fraud, or to attempt anything over the Internet that would be illegal in other venues. You do not have the right to “pump” stocks for private gain (at least where are you knowingly providing false information in an effort to do so).

Your Dark Net comparison is specious. Fortunately, the kinds of things I have outlined are illegal, forcing those who want to engage in the kinds of activities I have described to the “dark corners” of the ‘Net, where they exist on the margin. Nonetheless, law enforcement internationally makes an effort to crack down on them- just a few days ago, an international sting arrested dozens(?) of people dealing in child pornography. I am glad those people are not free to exploit children- hardened law enforcement agents are sickened by what they routinely see there.

I sense you and I value liberty, but I believe in protecting people from thugs and thieves. That, IMO, is why we legitmately have a need for government.

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DemocracyRules

4 years ago

Reply to  SoftwareBabeOHIO

Yes, The first really useful communication between ‘microcomputers’ in the 1980s
– was via ‘bulletin board’ software
– back then Pamela could have had an ‘Atlas Shrugs Club’
– and she could have made a text file
– with info about news and upcoming events, like her speeches
– and then people could use a dial-up modem to call her phone number
– and the modem was connected to her computer [called ‘the server’]
– and then we could open her text file and read what she wrote
– and this simple system was an enormous breakthrough for human communication
– imagine having a state-wide motorcycle club
– and having to mail out a newsletter, or phone everyone
– just to have a picnic? It was a huge hassle just to communicate

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DemocracyRules

4 years ago

Reply to  SoftwareBabeOHIO

Socialist tyrants MUST control the Web
– and they MUST take away free speech on the Web:
– “Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized?”
– Lenin
“Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.”
– Lenin
——————-
– tyrants always grab all the power and money
– and subjugate the citizenry to prevent insurrection
– they must prevent free speech
– because free speech facilitates insurrection

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felix1999

4 years ago

Reply to  SoftwareBabeOHIO

I remember the modem days and COBOL on cards…smart people numbered them….
I don’t think moving away from LANs was wise. I don’t trust Cloud providers. I also don’t like how Obama gave away our internet.

Obama gives away the internet and, with it, our liberty
By Judson Phillips – – Tuesday, September 13, 2016

It is no great shock that President Obama does not like American control of the internet. The internet was an American invention and America shared it with the world. American values of freedom and liberty created the Internet and allowed it to flourish. Now, in one of his last acts, Obama wants to destroy the Internet.

No, this is not one of those crazy internet conspiracy theories.

Despite the explicit wishes of Congress, Mr. Obama wants to allow an international body to take control of the Internet. The United States still controls something called the International Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA is responsible for the allocation of unique names and numbers that are used around the world in Internet protocols.

In short, it controls the allocation of domain names from Facebook.com to your church’s website. And Mr. Obama wants to give control of this to an International Organization. Without America and American values controlling the internet, who will control it and what will they do?
….
NOW YOU KNOW!
Read more here:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/13/obama-gives-away-internet-and-it-our-liberty/

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BobSmith101

4 years ago

The internet has become the 21st century public square.

A handful of lucky billionaire, snot nosed dweebs should not be able to sway the 2020 election.

The digital giants need to be broken up and highly regulated like all utilities.

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Liatris Spicata

4 years ago

Reply to  BobSmith101

I am sympathetic to your concern. Now, quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (who will guard the guards?)

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felix1999

4 years ago

Reply to  BobSmith101

People should be given more leeway to SUE the lying media when they lie and have THEM pay the legal costs when they win.

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Rocinante44

4 years ago

duh! the democrat-muslim media has been conspiring against america since FDR. nice to see a president finally come out and state the obvious.

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Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg

4 years ago

Okay. This is absolutely true.

Why hasn’t Homeland Security arrested them for treason yet?

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Rick James

4 years ago

Great snippet by Greenfield, he’s an excellent writer. I’d add even if the social media giants invented the whole internet, that still doesn’t mean they’d have a right to censor/ban ideas and individuals they didn’t like, who tend to be mostly Centrists and Conservatives.

The solution is simple and what Pam has been talking about for years, which is to enforce the First Amendment on all social media/internet. We already have laws on the books to prevent people from making death threats and so forth. We don’t need an extra layer of nonsensical rules dreamed up by techie Socialist soy-boys from Silicon Valley.

I think Trump has been hesitant to go after them because he probably sees them as private companies which have a right to run things as they please. Hopefully someone can explain to him that it no longer applies since they basically are utilities providing a service to the public, a platform for communication and therefore can be regulated by the govt.

Not only is free speech vital for the problem of Islam and future elections but ultimately it is our most valuable freedom for defending our Democracy and all other freedoms.

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R. Arandas

4 years ago

Most social media sites are VERY heavily biased towards the left, that is true.

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Roma Mikhasev

4 years ago

GBT!

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johnson johns

4 years ago

remarkable person, Trump…

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