Big tech firms have no values

The rush to throw money at Trump underlines the uncomfortable truth that technology lives in a moral vacuum

@bazzacollins The notion that big tech firms have a set of values has always triggered my BS filter. Companies will do what’s best for the bottom line. If that happens to coincide with what’s best for the planet, society or its customers, great. But the buck comes first. Never has that been more transparent than in the rush to throw money at Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Uber are among the companies that have all made $1 million donations to the fund, either directly or through their senior executives. That pays for one hell of a party. It shouldn’t matter if the top brass at these firms drank a little too much Dom Perignon on the big day, because several of them already seem…

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