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Microsoft faced the same threat in 2000 but the outcome of elections that year prevented that. Will it be the same?

It's the Biden administration pushing this so it's likely a Harris administration would keep on the same course. Trump and the tech industry hate each other so it's far from a given that he would be a typical Republican in favoring a large corporation like Google. Looks like Google is simply out of friends.

> Trump and the tech industry hate each other

Do they? I can never tell. I feel like lots of the people working in tech don't like him, but it feels like the VP/Director/C-Suite types secretly do like his policies even if they don't like his attitudes.

Everybody seems to love Crypto these days - when they're willing to spend 10's or 100's of Millions of $$$ against your election campaign.

There's been a lot of reporting on Harris having a much closer and positive relationship with Silicon Valley than Biden, pretty much from the point where Biden withdrawing became a possiblity. Here's an example, but you could find plenty more:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-vice-president-harris-vi...

It makes some sense. Biden was an ancient guy from the east cost, for whom the basis of wealth was manufacturing things and technology was confusing. Harris on the other hand built a political career in San Francisco during Silicon Valley's ascendancy. She would naturally view that industry in a more positive light, and would have had a lot of contacts with and backing from that set during her early career.

If it comes down to an old guy who loves trains and a younger west coast lawyer I think I'll stick with the trains. They're all politicians first though, so does it really make a difference?

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