Arrogant Biden could care less about oligarchs hes mad tech giants arent censoring for Democrats anymore

In his final remarks to the American people on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden launched a parting shot at the tech “oligarchy” that he says is taking over the country.Such arrogant and hypocritical remarks should be met with scorn by all those who languished under the program of social media censorship for the previous four years — a program largely forced on tech companies by the Biden White House, as an example of the very kind of merging of government and corporate power Biden now claims to oppose.“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” said Biden.The president did not name names, but it isn’t difficult to surmise that he was referring to Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, among others.Each of these tech billionaires has subtly — or in Musk’s case, not subtly whatsoever — broken with the Democratic Party and progressive governance.Bezos declined to let his newspaper endorse Kamala Harris for president; Zuckerberg recently fired the fact-checkers who had served as de facto enforcers of liberal groupthink on Facebook and Instagram; and Musk is a full-throated backer and key advisor for Trump.And that is what has earned these figures spots on Biden’s enemies list.Make no mistake: neither Biden nor the other elites within his party cared to castigate the leaders of this vital economic sector as threats to the Republic until they shrugged off Democratic control.Having parted ways with Biden, these individuals are indicating that the next political era will be characterized not by tech oligarchy but by tech freedom.It’s an important distinction.

Thanks to the revelations published by investigative reporters like Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger in the wake of Musk’s Twitter acquisition, the public no...