{"id":16112,"date":"2024-11-07T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16112"},"modified":"2024-11-07T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:30:05","slug":"tech-giants-face-a-familiar-uncertainty-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16112","title":{"rendered":"Tech Giants Face a Familiar Uncertainty With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and others learned during the last Trump administration to expect the unexpected when it came to Washington scrutiny and support.<\/p>\n

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At a meeting with Google\u2019s Larry Page, Apple\u2019s Tim Cook<\/a> and other tech leaders in 2016, President-elect Donald J. Trump told the gathering, \u201cI\u2019m here to help you folks do well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Mr. Trump\u2019s treatment of the tech industry during his first term was unpredictable and at times lashing.<\/p>\n

His regulators filed antitrust charges against Meta<\/a> and Google<\/a> and launched investigations into Apple and Amazon. He accused Meta and Twitter of censorship, resulting in Republican-led congressional hearings grilling tech executives. He moved to ban TikTok and blasted Amazon for shirking its tax obligations.<\/p>\n

Now with Mr. Trump\u2019s election victory on Tuesday, tech executives face the prospect of another four years of similar uncertainty. The president-elect has promised to put the tech billionaire Elon Musk in a newly created position to bring efficiencies to the government and vowed to deregulate industry. He has indicated that the government\u2019s efforts to break up Google<\/a> for a monopoly in search may go too far<\/a>, even though the investigation into the company started in his term. He has flip-flopped on the fate of TikTok, which again faces a U.S. ban. And he has promised more tariffs, which could affect chipmakers and smartphone manufacturers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The stakes are high. American tech companies \u2014 some of the most valuable in the world \u2014 are central to how people shop, communicate and consume information online. The industry pours billions of dollars into new and existing technologies, including most recently artificial intelligence<\/a>. The industry is also in the middle of a geopolitical battle with China and other nations over technological supremacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been incredibly unpredictable on tech and seems prone to changing positions on any topic,\u201d said Scott Babwah Brennen, director of the Center on Technology Policy at New York University.<\/p>\n

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Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and others learned during the last Trump administration to expect the unexpected when it came to Washington scrutiny and support.At a meeting with Google\u2019s Larry Page, Apple\u2019s Tim Cook and other tech leaders in 2016, President-elect Donald J. Trump told the gathering, \u201cI\u2019m here to help you folks do well.\u201dInstead, Mr. Trump\u2019s treatment of the tech industry during his first term was unpredictable and at times lashing.His regulators filed antitrust charges against Meta and Google and launched investigations into Apple and Amazon. He accused Meta and Twitter of censorship, resulting in Republican-led congressional hearings grilling tech executives. He moved to ban TikTok and blasted Amazon for shirking its tax obligations.Now with Mr. Trump\u2019s election victory on Tuesday, tech executives face the prospect of another four years of similar uncertainty. The president-elect has promised to put the tech billionaire Elon Musk in a newly created position to bring efficiencies to the government and vowed to deregulate industry. He has indicated that the government\u2019s efforts to break up Google for a monopoly in search may go too far, even though the investigation into the company started in his term. He has flip-flopped on the fate of TikTok, which again faces a U.S. ban. And he has promised more tariffs, which could affect chipmakers and smartphone manufacturers.The stakes are high. American tech companies \u2014 some of the most valuable in the world \u2014 are central to how people shop, communicate and consume information online. The industry pours billions of dollars into new and existing technologies, including most recently artificial intelligence. The industry is also in the middle of a geopolitical battle with China and other nations over technological supremacy.\u201cHe\u2019s been incredibly unpredictable on tech and seems prone to changing positions on any topic,\u201d said Scott Babwah Brennen, director of the Center on Technology Policy at New York University.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16114,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16115,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions\/16115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}