[E. Pluribus Unum]

In the late 1990s, a single technology company became so unfathomably rich and powerful--and so hellbent on dominating not just its own industry but a massive and rapidly growing new one--that the U.S. government dragged the company into court and threatened to break it up over anti-trust violations.

That's not at all what happened.

What happened was Bill Gates wasn't making political donations, and the Democrats dragged him in by the short hairs and taught him the error of his ways.

Now the Democrats are the happy recipients of Bill's beneficence, and all his anti-trust problems have gone away.

[EternalVigilance]

Exactly right. I was going to say exactly that, but you saved me the trouble.

[Hostage]

You are correct. That is exactly what happened.

Larry Ellison who as beneficiary of CIA data contracts paid the Clinton machine to go after Gates. If Gates had played ball by ponying up his contribution the Clinton machine would have offered Ellison a consolation prize.

But Gates was defiant thinking he didn’t need to listen, that they had nothing on him or Microsoft that could stick against Microsoft’s war chest and its lawyers. He was wrong.

Now Gates is a contributing left wing supporter. Mission accomplished.

And in fact our fellow Freepers should know that most of the leaders in technology and internet such as Google, Apple, Amazon are all compliant left wing supporters not because of their beliefs but because it’s just good business to them.

There’s more to this, much more but most people don’t know the black off-book world that funds a lot of tech giants and sustains them and allows them to dominate markets.