The next US Vice President, Kamala Harris, has deep personal and financial ties to Silicon Valley, but some observers believe that…
“We did it!” Joe Biden received the first call from his travel companion.
A phone call that Kamala Harris wanted to spread via Twitter with a short video of her on her cell phone, “almost a mockery for Donald Trump who for four years ruled US politics with tweets,” said Repubblica.
She is the first woman to enter the White House as vice president, but she is also the first African-American and the first American-Indian.
“No one better than her personifies multiethnic and multicultural America, a diversity that she carries on her skin since birth and that makes her doubly” proud to be American “, added Repubblica:” She will have her husband Doug Emhoff, lawyer alongside Los Angeles Jew who has show business stars as clients ”.
We did it, @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/oCgeylsjB4
– Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2020
Senator Kamala Harris will be the vice president of the White House with Joe Biden, but what relationship he will have with Silicon Valley
It is one of the topics at the center of the debate in the States United between politics and economics. HARRIS’S RELATIONSHIPS WITH BIG TECH
Harris has always viewed Big Tech as a partner rather than a threat, and has taken a moderate tone towards the industry on several fronts, and the arguments of most analysts. As a presidential candidate, Harris did not claim to ‘break up’ with Facebook, Google’s parent company Alphabet, or Amazon, as Senator Elizabeth Warren and fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders did, but she was willing. instead, to strengthen the application of antitrust rules. Like Biden, she recently called for a corporate tax hike, but then stopped before supporting a tax on assets held by wealthier Americans, Marketwatch writes. MANY ALLIES AND FRIENDS IN THE SILICON VALLEY
“Usually the vice president doesn’t manage a president’s technical agenda, but he can still help set the tone for a wide range of issues for a presidential campaign and administration. Harris ‘familiarity with these companies could give them a major role in technology policy, ”said Axios’ Kyle Daly and Ashley.
Harris has many friends and allies in Silicon Valley, even among Big Tech billionaires. Just to give a few examples, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg posted a photo of Harris on Instagram within minutes of Biden’s announcement, hailing his selection as a “great moment for black women and girls all over the world” .
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and then Apple executives Marissa Mayer and Jony Ive were among the big names in fundraising for his 2014 re-election nomination as California Attorney General, Teddy Schleifer noted on Twitter. Recode. BIG TECH PRESSURES
However, as both a prosecutor and a senator, Harris has also put pressure on Big Tech.
“Technology companies need to be regulated in a way that we can guarantee and the American consumer can rest assured that their privacy has not been compromised,” Harris told The New York Times. She was evasive, however, when she was asked if the tech giants should be fragmented.
Harris has been lobbying online platforms in a fight against revenge porn, according to Politico.com.
And she supported the 2018 bill that reduced the tech industry’s liability shield, section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. She told CNN that she would “closely follow” Facebook’s ‘fragmentation’. Finally, by putting pressure on disinformation platforms, foreign meddling, and hate speech, you have made tech CEOs on Capitol Hill tremble.
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EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE BY DANIELE RAINERI FOR THE DATED SHEET AUGUST 2020
In January 2019, a law professor from San Francisco, Lara Bazelon, wrote a devastating op-ed in the New York Times against Kamala Harris, who was then a primary candidate to become president. The editorial tore apart the image Kamala Harris loved to give of himself, that of the “progressive prosecutor”. Inserted into the mechanism of the law, but with her ideas that contributed to making the system better and more humane.
Bazelon wrote instead that Harris is by no means progressive, and brought up a series of arguments not without a certain rancor: he did not oppose the death penalty, he had not tried to remedy blatant procedural errors that kept innocent people in jail and every time. that it was time to make a choice of progressive politics, he abstained – particularly on a law that allowed the parents of students who skipped school to be punished even with imprisonment. The charge was: Harris is not an anti-system heroine, she is part of the system and approves of its worst aspects. That single article then became the mother of all left-wing criticism of Kamala Harris, summed up in the slogan: Kamala is a cop. Kamala and a policeman.
Stuff that sounded bad for a sector of Democratic voters in 2019, let alone now in 2020 as the country is split by the killing of George Floyd in front of passersby’s phones on a Minneapolis sidewalk.
Balancing in that role of black attorney, first district and then state, in California – the nation’s most liberal-minded state, but also a fifty-million-strong state and metropolis like Los Angeles – was difficult for Harris. During her first campaign to become a prosecutor in San Francisco, he was considered to be very leftist, one who wasn’t afraid to confront the cops if he thought they’d done something wrong. But then there was a turning point, which explains the flattening of him as a prosecutor in the following years.
The date of the turning point is April 10, 2004. A 29-year-old plainclothes policeman, Isaac Espinoza, during an overtime shift, when he was supposed to be already at home, sees a suspect, tries to stop him, he turns around, he hand a Kalashnikov assault rifle, fires a burst and kills him. Espinoza had a wife and a four-year-old daughter, and the first policeman killed on duty in ten years, the murder garnered enormous attention.
Over the next several years Harris will become very cautious when it comes to taking sides. And she will often change it. In his 2009 book he writes that it would take more police on the streets because all law-abiding citizens feel safer when they see more officers, but this year he told the New York Times that wanting more cops on the streets is a status thing. quo, very wrong.
