George Soros Goes Full “1984” in Anti-Tech Tirade

By artappraiser on Sat, 01/27/2018 - 8:24pm |

Davos 2018 has emerged as a bastion for anti-Silicon Valley sentiment.

By Maya Kosoff @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, Jan. 25

[....] This year, as backlash to Big Tech’s outsize influence reaches a global fever pitch, speakers’ remarks have taken on a more dire tone. On Thursday, billionaire investor George Soros, whose investment fund, as of November, owned several thousand shares of Facebook, offered a full-on dystopian conspiracy theory, indicting both the social network and Alphabet’s Google. According to BuzzFeed News, Soros said that both companies would “compromise themselves” in order to enter the Chinese market. That, he said, could lead to “an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich I.T. monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance. This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined.”

He went on to compare Google and Facebook to mining and oil companies, [....]

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/george-soros-goes-full-1984-anti-tech-tirade-davos-facebook-google

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He's not anti-tech - he's anti-monopoly

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 11:39am

Yeah I know. Headline writers often: BAD! FAKE NEWS!

by artappraiser on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 6:08pm

I doubt that George would have any real problems with China, the surveillance state or tech monoply if they were all in service to his dream of the NWO World Government. China and it's BRICS and now the US are frustrating these NWO dreams so his indigestion is boiling over in public.

by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 10:00pm

The FBI Director should swear loyalty to Trump.

by NCD on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 11:18pm

Get real, way too late, doncha know they went over to the dark side the day J. Edgar died, the minute long- time mole Felt got his hands on those secrets. No coincidence black choppers first sighted around the same time! And no coincidence Colorado went for Hillary. the whole Comey/Hillary emails thing: false cover!

by artappraiser on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 5:20am

LOYALTY TEST FOR EVERYONE IN PUBLIC OFFICE..!!

THE FREE PRESS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, AND SO IS DAGBOG..!! ITS A SWAMP!

by NCD on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 10:06am

It's getting bad! They brainwashed another one! Charlie Dent!

by artappraiser on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 12:59am

all becomes clear now on where you are coming from, Peter

by artappraiser on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 5:23am

What in the world are you and NCD ranting about? The post is about everyone's favorite liberal colour revolutionary, GS. His only loyalty seems to be to the NWO ideology and nations are mere pawns for him to manipulate.

by Peter (not verified) on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 10:55am

Of course, Peter - you've got it nailed. How could we have been so blind?

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 1:04pm

Conspiracizing has been dumbed down, one no longer has to worry about a whole secret hidden network that has infiltrated in all kinds of places, you've just got one single devil incarnate, get rid of him and all's well?

by artappraiser on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 1:31pm

King of the world, to be sure, your agitprop has convinced me!

by artappraiser on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 1:12am

I was glomming on the graffiti illuminati. kinda like scritti politti.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 1:05pm

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