Comment on Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers
egrets@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI’ve seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it’s very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:
Great pick by @realDonaldTrump.
He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough.
10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.
Implies Republicans stand for the little guys against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.
People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Slater became the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association lobby group. Which was founded by “small business” like Google, Amazon, eBay and Facebook.
And involved in trying to infringe upon privacy rights. eff.org/…/lawmakers-must-not-let-internet-associa… So yeah, was weird and suspicious he omitted that when trying to use her to praise trump and sell her as some champion against big corporations.
Then that anonymous medium article that floated around defending Andy completely omitting her involvement with the lobby group for big tech, and just focusing on how he isn’t a racist back then seems like it was written by Andy himself haha.
AlexanderTheGreat@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Maybe he just has a crush on her aha.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That would make the most sense haha