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| 8 | The politicisation of Silicon Valley (簡訳:シリコンバレーの政治化) | ---------- | |
| ComputerWeekly.com | 2026-06-10 18:50 | ????0? | |
| Present at the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2025 were Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple boss Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Also present was SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk, who went on to head up the US Department of Government Efficiency, which oversaw the closure of and funding cuts to numerous US government departments and programmes. Dell is the most recent company to benefit from its CEO’s open support of the US president. In 2025, after Trump won the US presidential election, Dell CEO Michael Dell tweeted: “Congratulations to President Trump on a successful campaign and election win. We look forward to continued progress and opportunity under his leadership and working together toward a strong and unified future for all.”Clegg joined Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, in 2018 and left in 2025. “When I arrived in Silicon Valley in the autumn of 2018, it was a completely different time. Silicon Valley was still a bit hippy-dippy, very much left-leaning, for better or for worse. But crucially, social media was a social thing. It was about human beings,” he said.“About one half of the US thinks that companies like Meta actively censor and suppress their view of the world, and another half yell at them and say, ‘You’re not censoring enough to keep us safe’,” he said. “There’s a much more polarised debate, and I think if you’re dealing with something as sensitive as speech, and where speech moderation ends and free expression begins, it’s more sensible to refrain from jumping into one political camp or another.”When asked whether tech bosses were driven purely by money, Clegg said he wasn’t sure it was only about money, adding that they tend to have an undergraduate-level fascination with ancient Rome. “Am I going to be remembered in a thousand years’ time as the person who helped inhabit Mars?” he said, implying that they see themselves as empire-building and want to be recognised for their achievements. -- ???????? | |||
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