{"id":1757373,"date":"2022-11-30T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757373"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:33:00","slug":"tech-entrepreneur-david-sacks-apple-is-doing-the-same-thing-in-the-u-s-that-they-are-doing-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-entrepreneur-david-sacks-apple-is-doing-the-same-thing-in-the-u-s-that-they-are-doing-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Entrepreneur David Sacks: Apple Is Doing The Same Thing In The U.S. That They Are Doing In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftech-entrepreneur-david-sacks-apple-is-doing-the-same-thing-in-the-u-s-that-they-are-doing-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>David Sacks, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tech<\/a> entrepreneur who has been a key figure at major companies like PayPal, warned during an interview Tuesday night that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> is doing the same thing in the United States that they are doing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/communist-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">communist China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sacks made the remarks during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson when asked about how Apple can be stopped from potentially booting Twitter off its App Store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Apple is doing in China is not that different from what Apple is doing in the U.S.,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are willing to engage in censorship on a global basis on behalf of their true paymasters. And by paymasters, I don\u2019t mean consumers \u2014 Apple has them completely locked up. What I mean is the party in power, whether that\u2019s in Beijing or Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the quid pro quo that MAGA Democrats have made \u2014 of course, by MAGA Democrats, I\u2019m referring to Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon,\u201d Sacks continued. \u201cThey have the most lucrative monopolies in history and want to continue minting money undisturbed. And in exchange for that, they will donate lavishly [to] the Democratic Party, and they\u2019re willing to kneecap their political opponents with censorship if that\u2019s what the party in power requires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: But in the meantime, we are very happy to be joined by David Sacks. He\u2019s one of the founders of PayPal. He spent the last 25 years as a major figure in the tech world and has been watching very carefully what\u2019s happening with Elon Musk after the acquisition of Twitter. David Sacks, thanks so much for coming on. If Apple did this, it would, it seems like it would effectively destroy Twitter as the force that it currently is. That would be an abuse of monopoly power. I think everyone [would] agree. What can be done to stop that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DAVID SACKS, TECH FIGURE: Well, yeah, I agree with you, Tucker, that, you know, what Apple is doing in China is not that different from what Apple is doing in the U.S. They are willing to engage in censorship on a global basis on behalf of their true paymasters. And by paymasters, I don\u2019t mean consumers \u2014 Apple has them completely locked up. What I mean is the party in power, whether that\u2019s in Beijing or Washington. This is the quid pro quo that MAGA Democrats have made \u2014 of course, by MAGA Democrats, I\u2019m referring to Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon. They have the most lucrative monopolies in history and want to continue minting money undisturbed. And in exchange for that, they will donate lavishly [to] the Democratic Party and they\u2019re willing to kneecap their political opponents with censorship if that\u2019s what the party in power requires.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CARLSON: You know, the traditional libertarian position on this, which I ascribed to for many years, I\u2019ll just say it, was that, you know, the First Amendment protects Americans from having their speech hampered by the government, okay? But all speech takes place online at this point. We know that there are direct connections between the tech companies and the government currently in power, they\u2019re censoring people at the direction of the U.S. government. So really, if you censor Twitter, you\u2019re eliminating my right to speak freely as an American, which is a constitutional problem. So why can\u2019t someone take action against this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SACKS: I think you\u2019re right. I mean, what\u2019s basically happened here is that the government has found a kind of loophole in the First Amendment. The First Amendment as stated, it only applies to government, to Congress. But if the government can basically get big tech to do its censorship for it, it can claim that this was done by private actors. The problem is that the town square has been privatized. When content got digitized, it got centralized in the hands of a few big tech companies. And the problem here, though, is that these big tech companies aren\u2019t just acting on their own. They\u2019re acting, you know, at the behest of the government in Washington. And, you know, whether it\u2019s the Biden administration or various senators on the Judiciary Committee, they have suggested to these companies that their monopolies might be broken up if they don\u2019t take down more content. And so big tech has gotten the message. They want their monopolies to continue undisturbed, they want to keep minting money. And so they are responding by practicing this censorship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CARLSON: I just got to finally ask you a personal question. So you\u2019ve been in this business, at the top of this business, you know, all your life effectively, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen everything in the tech world. Were you shocked to learn that Apple was preventing nonviolent protesters in China from communicating with each other?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SACKS: It is pretty shocking because the way that<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur who has been a key figure at major companies like PayPal, warned during an interview Tuesday night that Apple is doing the same thing in the United States that they are doing in communist China. 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