Big Tech

“The odds that Donald Trump would have gone to jail and been prosecuted, was basically, in my opinion, a fucking stone cold lock. And then now after this happened, There's a bunch of those people who are going to basically like him and ha, and now they're not g…”

“We've had this sweeping appropriation of power by, you know, half a dozen oligarchs who now have the right. To determine what we see and read and people are cheering because they hate Trump so much. They can't see that the biggest power grab in history has hap…”

“They're getting they're going to get regulated like utilities at some point”

“The level of regulation at a government by government level is going to be so onerous as to make these companies quasi nonprofits that work on behalf of countries.”

“It is inconceivable. That inside of big tech at every single company that you define big tech is not at least one spy from Russia, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia.”

“I'll go out on a limb and say we're in the sort of the August of their supremacy.”

“And I think that big tech is going to gobble up the rest of these libraries, and that's where they're going to stay.”

“Just to put some numbers on this, Big Tech is getting something like 400 subpoenas a week. For people's records. They only oppose four percent of them.”

“I think it's going to go through. I think we are going to see some big changes.”

“I do think that of all the big tech companies, the argument for breaking up Facebook is the weakest”

“I think that this is sort of peak big tech market cap is probably within the next year or two.”

“It has been a stated strategy of all of big tech to use their balance sheets to buy small companies in their incipiency, to use her words, not because it helps advantage their monopoly, but it prevents the leakage of human capital Into other ideas, and it prev…”

“I don't think you'll ever see that because I think Big tech you have to remember is basically the index. And in the last 10 or 20 years, you've never seen drawdowns more than 15 to 25%.”

“There is one business above all others that I think is immune amongst big tech from any sort of real long-term issues. And that's Microsoft.”

“Microsoft is beyond the level of regulatory scrutiny that the rest of big tech actually has because they are consumer businesses.”

“I think that Microsoft and Google are far and away the winners. Far and away the winners.”

“Like in the tens of thousands of employees that work in big tech, there's probably at least five or 10 of these people that work on behalf of foreign government.”

“The scale interference in the election was committed by big tech. I mean, they censored the Hunter Biden story two weeks before the election.”

“On a dollar basis, the biggest business loser of this year was big tech.”

“When these big tech companies control a monopoly platform, they should not be able to discriminate in favor of their own apps against those downstream app developers.”

“So it looks to me like Google and big tech are going to win this one.”

“The Republican position on most issues is like a 60 to 70% winner, and yet the elections are a nail biter, and I think a lot of it has to do with the influence of the mainstream media and big tech.”

“Big tech has become increasingly pro-Democrat. Little tech has become increasingly pro-Republican, right? So if you're an upstart, if you're in crypto, if you're like a small AI company, I think you're much more likely to be pro-Republican. If you're a monopol…”

“What Lena Kahn fundamentally gets correct is that big tech really is a threat. It's a threat to free speech, it's increasingly oligarchic, it controls too much of what we're allowed to say, and also, It controls a lot of the ways in which capital gets invested…”

“The sum of the parts analysis would tell you that the breakup value is greater than the way that these companies get discounted. You can look at the multiples that they trade at, and you can see that. So if you're a shareholder of the company, you actually sil…”