All the intertwining of Big Tech with US institutions. Fabbri’s analysis (Limes)
How powerful are Big Tech USA really? And what relationship do they have with American institutions? The in-depth analysis by Dario Fabbri, geopolitical analyst, United States expert and scientific advisor of the Limes magazine directed by Lucio Caracciolo
Dario Fabbri , geopolitical analyst and scientific advisor of Limes magazine, questions the beliefs, deeply rooted in the Old Continent, that attribute great power to Silicon Valley companies, almost superior to that of American politics.
The idea, and the confirmation of this theory, comes from the act of censorship by the social networks Twitter, Facebook and Instagram against the former president of the United States of America Donald Trump .
Big Tech didn't invent anything
In the European imagination, according to Fabbri , the great American technology companies are made up of great inventors "independent, superordinate" subjects of great technical imagination and technology. The reality would be very different because the US big techs would not have invented any of the technologies they have. Fabbri starts from the invention of the Internet which is not due to a private company but to the research of the Pentagon which needed an internal network to send sensitive communications, in the same way the microprocessors, the basic unit of every computer or mobile phone, was invented by the American armed forces and tested for the first time on F14s, later on nuclear submarines and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Cell phones are also military inventions, dating back to the first Gulf War and responding to the need to make satellite communications possible.
National interest wins over everything
The power of big tech appears, therefore, immediately diminished if we consider that the technology they have is not their production (and therefore property) but derives from the military research of the federal state. Furthermore, “these companies do not exist in the Hyperuranium or in a satellite of the Empire but in the very heart of the USA. The USA is not a conventional country , the intervention of the State, albeit mystified by the American liberal propaganda, which many still believe especially in Italy – continues Fabbri – is invasive in a context such as the US ". To put it another way, these companies would not move autonomously but would do exactly what suits the American national interest because they are aware that they do not have the technology they use. "And they know – adds Fabbri – that the next batch of technology that the federal state will create could be cut off" and those new technologies attributed to other companies.
The pact between the federal state and big techs
American intelligence plays a role in the relationship between technology companies and the federal state. In 1890 the Sherman Act destroyed the monopolies of large American oil companies by banning cartels and monopolies between federal states. Similarly, according to Fabbri, the Federal Administration refrains from approving stringent privacy and antitrust laws as long as Big Techs work to serve in the national interest. After all, the data available to social networks and which they obtain for free because because each of us gives them for free, they remain on US territory and are made available to the American administration.
Was Trump really silenced by Big Tech?
In recent weeks, all US technology platforms have decided in unison to ban the former president of the United States of America Donald Trump . According to Fabbri, the debate staged in Europe on freedom of expression and the overwhelming power of Bg Tech would be out of focus, because even the censorship against Trump would respond to a request from the American federal apparatus. "If it is true that these companies are very fragile, that they depend on the federal state for their technologies and that they can be expelled from the market through strict laws – concludes Fabbri – then it is not possible that they have decided for themselves also because many are paying from the point of financial view the decision to ban Trump . Eliminating Trump, a gentleman who causes a lot of traffic on social networks, cannot be a happy choice from a financial point of view. A choice that was clearly agreed, or even imposed, by the American federal apparatuses ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ecco-gli-intrecci-delle-big-tech-con-le-istituzioni-usa-lanalisi-di-fabbri-limes/ on Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:03:48 +0000.