by Vivek Ramaswamy 2021
62 "Uighur population in what Beijing calls Xinjiang and the Uighurs call East Turkestan."
63 "I don't believe in "systemic racism." In fact, I don't even know what it means: to me, it sounds like a catchall phrase designed to allow political leaders to escape accountability for solving real-world problems like poverty and failure in education."
146 "...after the financial crisis, the Obama DOJ slammed big banks with massive fines so it could trumpet that it was sending tons of relief to consumers. Then it told banks they could pay less than half that much if they donated the money to Obama's favorite nonprofits instead. And being fond of money, the banks took the DOJ up on the offer. Now that's a great quid pro quo-the DOJ gets to look good, the banks get to keep most of their money, and the liberal nonprofits get lots of funding."
163 "...no one has mastered this dark art better than China. In sum, here's how the game works. First, Black Lives Matter activists-or environmentalists or feminists or whoever-become the front for American technology companies to win consumer trust. Second, those companies monetize that trust by generating clicks, selling ads, and charging fees- generating a treasure trove of sensitive personalized data about each of their consumers. Third, the CCP demands access to that data as a condition of entry for companies to do business in China. Fourth, these companies supplicate to the CCP and make a killing in China. Fifth, they keep mum about their dealings in China while continuing to issue woke proclamations through their corporate megaphones. BLM wins. Silicon Valley wins. The CCP wins. The real losers of this game are the American people."
212 "If that sounds ridiculous, think again: that's exactly what Congress did with Section 230 of the Telecommunications Decency Act, combined with its severe threats to social media companies to censor speech on their sites. The left wing of Congress, unwittingly aided by some right-wing populists, effectively dispatched social media companies to do speech-censoring work that the First Amendment prohibits Congress from doing directly. These social media companies are effectively privately hired censoring agents for the government."
213 "...here's how the game was played. First, Congress endowed big tech with the special corporate privilege of Section 230 that immunizes technology companies from any liability in state court for censoring or otherwise regulating user content. Second, liberal congressmen threaten those same companies at hearings in 2020, saying that if they fail to remove "hate speech" from white nationalists, they would be punished. Third, liberal lawmakers congratulate social media companies after they go on to censor content that Democrats don't like. Fourth, tech titans manage to take their most aggressive actions of all just as Democrats are poised to take control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives for the first time in over a decade. And fifth-of course-Silicon Valley billionaires made staggeringly one-sided campaign contributions do those same Democratic candidates as a token of appeasement."