Tech leaders are betting that freedom of speech, freedom to innovate, and freedom from crushing government regulations and confiscatory taxes are more likely in a Trump reign than in a Kamala Harri…
A shocking partisan switch is underway in the stratosphere of the tech titans: The industry known for its wokeness is Elon Musk for Commerce secretary? Or perhaps for the newly created position of Free Speech Czar?
Not really: While Democrats strove mightily last week to push “freedom” as the theme of their convention, tech leaders are betting that freedom of speech, freedom to innovate and freedom from crushing government regulations and confiscatory taxes are more likely in a Trump reign than in a Kamala Harris administration.“I would say that I trust the future of this country more under the leadership of Trump . . .
Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, said in December that it would decide which presidential ticket to support based on one issue: “If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.”
Of course, the tech industry is an industry like any other, concerned with what government can do to damage the business environment. The same political metamorphosis bringing tech figures to Trump is also causing thousands of firms to flee California’s high taxes and overbearing regulations and relocate to Texas. They’re trading woke for business-friendly.
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