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JD Vance said he supports the anti-US-big-tech campaign of Lina Khan and that he thinks she has a place in the new admin.

They will most likely break up Google and Meta for "pushing the woke agenda" but are smart enough to hide behind Lina Khan's anti-US-big-tech arguments that has populist support on both wings of the political spectrum.

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This particular issue would be great for competition, and the economy. Conglomerates always have a discount. Whilst (perhaps) unpopular, this is one thing I'm rather in favour of.

This will clearly happen because Pence was so influential in Trump’s first term, and Trump also followed through on so much of his and/or his vice president’s claims in the first term.

You cant be serious lol.

I read it as almost certainly sarcasm (usually when people use “clearly” like that, it’s sarcasm).

I disagree with him. Peter Thiel supported Trump before but the vice was from the religious part of the sector.

Vance is Thiels man. And Theil wants to be a Supreme Court Judge.

Why do you say Theil wants to be on the Supreme Court? This is the first time I'm hearing this

I thought I misremembered but Google vindicates me. And Trump wanted Thiel on the court too

I'd love this to be true but there's no reason and plenty to the contrary for me not to believe anything said by people associated with Trump. Time will tell but I expect the opposite.

Maybe last decade. This time, Trump's direct answer here was that he doesn't want to break up Google, because they are powerful, and he likes them powerful because he is going to force them to obey him and act in his interest.

I'll believe it when I see it; but yeah they _might_ target Google/Facebook for not following the free speech ideals of present day Twitter.

Don't think they'll actually break up either of them in that case though; more likely use them as a boogeyman to endlessly dispute with so they appear anti-big-tech whilst doing everything possible to boost share prices of the same and similar companies.

JD Vance isn't president, Trump is. Trump does not care about breaking up big tech. What are we talking about here?

Vance called Trump "America's Hitler" a few years ago. You can't trust what he says.

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