President-elect Joe Biden adds Big Tech executives to the transition team; columnist for The Hill Joe Concha with reaction.
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Steve Well Joe Bidens,
Steve Well Joe Bidens
transition team wasting no time
getting to work, trying to lay
the groundwork for a new
administration come January,
Ainsley and making Sure Silicon
Valley is well represented, of
course, with big tech execs from
uber and Amazon on the team.
Brian right
here to react. Fox news,
contributor media opinion
columnist for the hill, Joe
Concha
Joe. He has some contacts with
Silicon Valley. Why not tap into
it?
Do you see a problem with it?
Not at all? Actually, Brian,
before President Obama took
office, many of the people in
his administration worked in
Silicon Valley.
Then President Trump wins in
two thousand, and sixteen
now you have a Biden
administration likely coming up.
As a result, those people will be
going back.
Think about it. One thousand two hundred jobs need to
be filled in any presidential
administration. Obviously, a Biden
administration,
look big tech really really
wanted a Biden administration.
You look at sixty dollars million in
donations from alphabet which
obviously Google is a
subsidiary
Amazon, Facebook and Apple
so, and we saw the evidence
throughout the campaign of that
rooting blocking that New York
Post story on Hunter Biden or
fact checking the president, but
never his opponents,
locking out accounts of senior
administration officials or
prominent conservative voices.
So look we saw the Ty tie, root
for Biden,
very powerful combination, Guys
Steve. You know Joe. There were
many on both sides. That said the
big tech power needed to be
reigned in and suggested they
change section two hundred and thirty, because right
now they have got immunity from
liability because even though
they act like publisher energies,
many cases they are not
something they started a long
time ago to make sure it took
off.
I got news for you: it took off
and theyre rich
big time.
Social media now in the 21st
century was what television and
radio and newspapers was in the
20th century,
its no longer just about people
sharing pictures of their kids
or posting their inner thoughts.
These are where people get their
news from
these social media companies.
Its a good news, bad news
scenario, Steve
look, the bad news is taxes will
go up for Amazon and Facebook
and Google
and obviously section two hundred and thirty. You
talked about that that provides
from a liability perspective,
protects the social media
companies from the content that
the users put up,
but the Good NEWS is that they
really did not like President
trumps tariffs with China. All
that much
particularly apple was putter
hurt by that, most importantly, H,
one b visas, the Trump
Administration limited that to
only people make two hundred and eight thousand dollars within
a social media company.
Joe Biden wants to relax that
wants to issue more green cards.
As a result, social media
companies can hire more farm
workers less money,
certainly good news. Bad news,
Ainsley, Michael Moore, read this
letter on his podcast.
It was a letter he wrote to Joe
Biden.
Listen to this.
I see these people in the
media and elsewhere, trying to
take c credit for your victory, a
using their personal agendas to
push you away from the
progressive left and toward the
cowardly center.
They think, because Trump got
seventy million votes that the
Democrats should now reject
black lives matter, reject AOC
and reject anything that vaguely
sounds like ssssssssocialism.
Please do not make the same
mistake that an otherwise
well meaning and
well intentioned. President Obama
made charge in there on January 20th
charge in there on January, 20th
like FDR on steroids and go big
Ainsley Joe. Your reaction,
Michael Moore, toldly, sold the
whole sss from the Fonz.
He could never say he was sorry
a little attribution. There would
be nice
over all. Look if im any of
the Georgia Republican Senate
candidates, im taking that and
making that in ad
Americans, like checks and
balances, either way.
If you give a clean runway from
the house to the Senate to the
oval office, all those
progressive ideas around
abolishing the electoral
college filibuster ice,
expanding the Supreme Court,
expanding the Senate banning
fracking as far as canceling
student debt or defunding the
police. All of that happens
so hey. Maybe you dont like me
all that much but think about
the consequence. Fuss dont have
this fire wall between the House
and the White House.
I have a feeling if you gave Joe
Biden sodium Pentothal, which I
believe is truth serum deep down.
He would tell you. I want a
republican Senate, so I dont
have to deal with that wing of.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-12.