Another day, another example of liberal Big Tech companies interfering in our elections.
The latest example comes from Amazon, whose AI personal assistant, Alexa, gave very different answers when asked for reasons why someone should vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.
Asked about Trump, Alexa played dumb: “I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate.”
Fair enough.
Asked about Kamala, however, Alexa’s scruples suddenly melted away: “While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris,” Alexa enthused, “the most significant may be that she is a female of color with a comprehensive plan to address racial injustice and inequality throughout the country.”
Set aside for a second the obvious double standard. Set aside the weird identity politics. (Really, the most important reason to vote for Kamala is that she’s a “female of color”?) Set aside the bizarre claim that Kamala has a “comprehensive plan” on anything, when her campaign website doesn’t even have an ‘issues’ section.
This is Amazon, one of the biggest and most intrusive tech companies in the world, and it’s putting a thumb on the scale of a presidential election. That’s frightening.
Of course, Amazon PR is trying to clean up the mess. “This was an error that was quickly fixed,” a spokesperson insisted. But whether it was really an unfortunate error or something intentional and worse, the damage is the same.
And given how often these “errors” occur, you’re right to be skeptical. Especially since they always seem to benefit liberal causes and Big Tech’s preferred party, the Democrats.
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Remember, this is the same Amazon that yanked documentaries on Clarence Thomas and the Russiagate hoax from its platform and that banned books critical of transgender ideology. This is the same company whose employees have donated more than a million dollars to Kamala Harris’s campaign.
Maybe that’s all just a crazy coincidence, but I see a trend.
It’s a trend that cuts across Big Tech and corporate America, whether it’s Google burying Donald Trump’s campaign website, Facebook suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election, or Coca-Cola and Major League Baseball punishing Georgia for fighting voter fraud.
Big corporations have veered hard to the left, and increasingly they’re using their power to tell you how to think and who you should vote for. This is a shocking abuse of power. It’s not going to stop until normal people make it stop.
Thankfully, there are more ways than ever for citizens to fight back. In just the past few years, a “parallel economy” has formed that empowers citizens to divest from woke corporations. There are social-media platforms like X, Rumble, and Truth Social that don’t censor speech. And it’s not just social media.
I’m the CEO of PublicSquare, a marketplace that connects shoppers with companies that align with their values. Whether you need auto parts or camping equipment, chances are there’s a pro-American company that sells it. Now, they are easier to find than ever.
More and more, citizens are using their pocketbooks and their voice to hold companies accountable. We saw this in dramatic fashion when Bud Light got boycotted for promoting transgender ideology. That boycott cost the company more than a billion dollars in lost sales and forced it to make amends to its customers.
Now other big companies are reversing their racist DEI policies and pulling out of partnerships with left-wing advocacy groups to avoid becoming the next Bud Light. They’re scared because Americans are waking up. They should be.
Woke corporations are still trying to interfere in our elections, as the Alexa scandal shows. So we have to stay vigilant.
But these are fights that Americans can win, if we support each other and speak out against left-wing companies that abuse their power.
The bottom line is that woke is bad for business. One way or the other, big corporations are going to learn that lesson.
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