by Mike Davis at The Washington Times
Three years ago, we warned of Big Tech’s campaign to weaponize U.S. national security to protect its monopolies from antitrust scrutiny. At the time, Google and other tech giants argued that bipartisan legislation in Congress to curb their monopoly power would harm national security. They claimed that Big Tech companies were “national champions” like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and should be exempt from antitrust laws to protect America from foreign threats such as China. Unfortunately, many conservatives in Congress fell for this argument and the legislation failed.
This reasoning was deeply flawed. It relied on the false assumption that trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolists — Alphabet (Google and YouTube), Amazon, Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and Apple — actually care about America. Take Google, for example. In 2018, the company abandoned its contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven, an initiative to provide artificial intelligence for military drones. This decision was made after internal protests from employees who, driven by political biases, objected to working with the U.S. military.
Meanwhile, Google was negotiating with the Chinese government to develop a censored search engine known as Project Dragonfly, which would grant the Chinese Communist Party access to citizens’ data. In short, Google was unwilling to support U.S. national security but was more than willing to collaborate with China and the Chinese Communist Party. This behavior demonstrates that Google’s priorities were never aligned with our national interests.
Fast-forward to 2025,…
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