By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-13 17:17:39 | Updated at 2025-01-17 07:32:35
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Fortnite CEO Slams Big Tech Bosses for 'Currying Favor' With Donald Trump
Newsweek ^ | Jan 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM EST | Flynn Nicholls
Posted on 01/13/2025 8:54:34 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Tim Sweeney, the founder and chief executive of Fortnite parent company Epic Games, has accused Big Tech leaders of shifting political allegiances to "curry favor" with President-elect Donald Trump.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday, Sweeney warned that Silicon Valley's most powerful bosses would be feigning political allegiance to the MAGA movement to push a "scummy monopoly campaign" with the incoming administration.
Newsweek reached out to Epic Games, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, OpenAI, Tesla, and the Trump transition team via email for comment.
Sweeney's accusations come after several tech chief executives who did not publicly support Trump before the election have donated or met with him following his victory, including the bosses of Amazon, Apple, Open AI, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Alphabet, which owns Google.
Trump's alliances with right wing tech moguls like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel suggest a potential pivot toward deregulation and policies favorable to major tech firms.
Sweeney' wrote that the chief executives were acting cynically to advance their own companies' agendas rather than out of true political allegiance.
"After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors," he wrote on X.
Sweeney has long been critical of Big Tech for what he sees as monopolistic practices. In 2023, Epic Games won a lawsuit against Google after a judge ruled Google's Play app store acted as an illegal monopoly.
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1 posted on 01/13/2025 8:54:34 AM PST by Miami Rebel
To: Miami Rebel
“Curry”
Sounds kinda racist.
2 posted on 01/13/2025 8:55:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Miami Rebel
Return to normalcy.
Was going to happen with or without Trump.
Sooner or later.
3 posted on 01/13/2025 8:57:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Miami Rebel
“Slams” - whines like little bitch.
4 posted on 01/13/2025 8:58:12 AM PST by TigerClaws
To: Miami Rebel
Timmy sounds like he needs to restock the Fortnite men’s rooms with Tampons.
5 posted on 01/13/2025 8:58:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Florida Felons "convicted" in New Yawk Kangaroo Courts by bozos make the best presidents!!!)
To: Miami Rebel
Not to be confused with the old Epyx games from the late 70's into the 80's.
6 posted on 01/13/2025 9:00:51 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Miami Rebel
So stop monopolistic bullying companies by stopping moves towards a free-market economy. Got it! Sounds like a beneficiary of the regulatory state is whining.
7 posted on 01/13/2025 9:01:37 AM PST by AndyJackson
To: Miami Rebel
Epic Games is a Woke disaster. They have games that allow you to put trans surgery scars on characters and they wanted inclusive language in coding. I’d be surprised if Epic Games still is in business by the end of Trump’s term.
8 posted on 01/13/2025 9:04:33 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Miami Rebel
“”After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. “
Not what some here want to hear, but it’s hard to disagree with the man’s point here. It’s not like Zuck, Bezos et al. have suddenly “seen the light” as to the virtues of MAGA, conservatism et al. Rather, this is opportunism. Period.
9 posted on 01/13/2025 9:05:12 AM PST by irishjuggler
To: Miami Rebel
Sweeney’ wrote that the chief executives were acting cynically to advance their own companies’ agendas rather than out of true political allegiance.
“After years of pretending to be Democrats,
.......
So, they were pretending to be Democrats?
Boy they really fooled those Democrats!
/s
Didnt know crony capitalism was so hard on these Big Tech folks to make them have to pretend to be Democrats
The horror
10 posted on 01/13/2025 9:06:01 AM PST by delchiante
To: Miami Rebel
They didn’t curry favor. They bent the knee.
11 posted on 01/13/2025 9:07:15 AM PST by Publius
To: Opinionated Blowhard
A month long celebration of Juice Wrld…. A junkie rapper who died hiding drugs on a plane by eating them all
12 posted on 01/13/2025 9:16:11 AM PST by MrRelevant
To: Miami Rebel
13 posted on 01/13/2025 9:16:21 AM PST by Fido969
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