BigTech Nearing Censorship Technology Threshold

BigTech has decided their AI is the new media.

As the Trump Administration shows signs of authoritarianism resembling an undemocratic control of the media along the lines of censorship, suddenly BigTech’s own censorship tendencies are in focus. The White House had banned the Associated Press, because Trump didn’t like their coverage. You knew it wasn’t going to be a healthy administration for the free media when they started to bar the AP from Oval office events weeks after President Donald Trump regained office.

I was saddened to learn of how Microsoft treated internal employee activists related to Microsoft’s defense contract participation in the Gaza massacre. Microsoft terminated the employment of two employees who protested at company events over the Israeli military’s use of Microsoft’s AI. BigTech keeps free speech out of the hyping of its AI echo-chambers.

I saw the video of Mustafa Suleyman pretending he cares when they interpreted him at Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event, a leader with a pattern of bullying his subordinates. In recent years internal employee activism has not been tolerated at Amazon, Google and apparently at Microsoft as well. If you are a BigTech employee with real ethics or a moral compass, you are sort of out of luck.

While Microsoft owned LinkedIn isn’t just cringe, it’s been stripped of any criticism or comments or dialogue that appear negative. Because advertising platforms apparently don’t like free speech, honesty or anything resembling real opinions. LinkedIn has become a glorified PR platform with mostly synthetic generated media. Censorship is a real thing in the decline of journalism that you could argue, has been accelerated by decisions made by BigTech executives. Especially at Meta, formerly called Facebook.

Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams told senators in testimony last Wednesday April 9th, 2025 on Capitol Hill about how Facebook worked with China on censorship technologies. Facebook’s lawyers have been busy around it’s long patterns of unethical conduct and patterns of abuse in leadership. Trump has no concept or rule of law, and BigTech is only too glad to participate in this administration’s tactics.

Meta enjoys Billions of dollars of advertising revenue for helping China with its censorship technologies, even as it no longer officially operates in China. Sarah’s memories chronicles Zuckerberg’s multi-year effort to break into the Chinese market beginning in 2014 in a quest to reach the country’s more than 1 billion potential social media users. Meanwhile in 2025, Google is no longer pointing to legitimate websites but its own AI Overviews more and more, and in particular its own asset of YouTube, again a major advertiser. BigTech has decided their AI is the new media.

BigTech has decided their AI is the new media.

This should really alarm us.

Generative AI is stripping the internet of its human opinions. Don’t even get me started on the AI slop that is now Elon Musk’s X that was bought by xAI, another one of his companies with barely any revenue and a valuation that does not make sense. BigTech has always prioritized its own traffic and apps over the media, real journalism and investigative journalism that is closer to the objective truth in whatever is possible in America today. Digital advertising became a bigger priority to BigTech than supporting America’s democratic institution.

Donald Trump has a semi-criminal pattern of behavior of targeting judges and enacting revenge against anyone who might oppose him - so much for free speech. Billionaires executives seeking favors with the President, will gladly become more pro-censorship during his second term. The result will be a America will become more of a fascist state. Weakening further the grip of democracy and rule of law on the world’s nations making them easier to manipulate for the benefits of the ultra financial elite. It wasn’t by chance that Elon Musk sought to influence the outcome of the Germany elections with the algorithmic influence of the monstrosity that Twitter has become.

BigTech are National Security risks

Historically Facebook definately undermined national security in order to build a $18 billion business in China. Sarah Wynn-Williams was a former global public policy director at Facebook, said that she watched as executives decided to provide the Chinese Communist Party‬ with access to the data of Meta users, including that of Americans. It’s well known that BigTech shares and sells user data on their with each other and Chinese companies. This has been going on for a long time.

As BigTech races to become hubs for Agentic AI, the next incarnation of the internet will have data harvesting and censorship of unimaginable levels baked into it. This has been BigTech’s plan all along with regards the end-game of Generative AI. On the same day OpenAI released new kind of long-term memory in ChatGPT, Microsoft released its controversial Copilot Recall, a windows version of and copy of the dystopian startup Rewind that sounds like a surveillance product out of the TV show Black mirror. Generative AI isn’t just hype, it’s a new system for the internet, consumers and human rights on the internet.

Surveillance Capitalism with characteristics of Censorship

It’s a reality where things only exist if ChatGPT or AI Overviews say they do. These won’t be fact checked and glorious oracles you can imagine. They will circumvent many of the aspects of rule of law, factual journalism, investigative media and avenues of free speech that used to be available to citizens, consumers and advoctaves for more objectivity and truthfulness online.

Mark Zuckerberg-owned Facebook, now called Meta, prevailed in its arbitration case, the outcome of which temporarily prohibits the memoir's author, former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, from promoting or distributing her book, the New York Times repotted. When a free media falls, so does democracy, and you can make the argument real democracy no longer exists today in 2025, at least in the United States of America. Journalism has been in decline for quite some time, and the kind that still exist is Billionaire backed, does PR for BigTech or both.

BigTech’s lobbying, lawyers, own digital rule of law, have essentially won. Activist movements internally at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, (least of all Meta) or other places no longer exist as they once did. The extent to which American BigTech companies participated in Israel’s massacre of Gaza isn’t well known or publically acknowledged. That isn’t by accident. While Microsoft have failed in Generative AI by funding a new dominant competitor, OpenAI, Mustafa getting some pro Palestinian spam on his LinkedIn posts are the least of Microsoft’s worries.

The Trump Administration will likely use BigTech to his authoritarian advantages skirting rule of law in the process and warping our future digital systems for the benefit of oligarchs. BigTech executives, will only be too happy to oblige. As America slips further into a censorship dystopia and the surveillance Capitalism system where it is the final authority, building the AI to replace human workers, you know like journalists, lawyers, activists and caring and concerned citizens.

BigTech does not care about democracy or the media, it cares about gaining even more power, more profits, more moats to legitimize its influence. It cares to facilitate the goals of the financial elites that now have taken over America.

• Full-Hearing 4 days ago. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing with Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, former Director of Global Public Policy.

Please try and understand what’s going on. Generative AI is not some productivity empowering technology. It is a system of tools that will be used to create an entirely new system of control.

• Video of Pro-palestinian activist interrupting at Microsoft’s 50th anniversary. Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in the company’s AI division, was fired, terminated, not welcome.

• Vaniya Agrawal also stood up and spoke—this time directly to Bill Gates and current CEO Satya Nadella. (Not a Muslim. Not from Palestine. Still chose to stand up.). Source.

• Suchir Balaji, OpenAI copyright whistleblower died under suspicious circumstances. Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy believe their son was killed. In October 2024, Suchir Balaji, 26, said he had evidence that OpenAI broke copyright law to develop ChatGPT, a month later he was dead.

These won’t be isolated incidents.