Elizabeth Warren’s War on Big Tech

The Senator from Massachusetts is threatening to break up Silicon Valley. It could be the best thing that ever happened.

By Jeff Cunningham

You can tell the silly season has started when politicians who spend most evenings sipping champagne at $1,000 a plate fundraisers begin to sound like college protesters.

In that vein, Elizabeth Warren, the outspoken US Senator from Massachusetts, tried on some tough talk at a campaign rally recently: “We have these giant corporations — do I have to tell that to people in Long Island City? — that think they can roll over everyone. I’m sick of freeloading billionaires.”

According to The New York Times, Warren threatened total dismemberment for the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos, of the companies they founded, to be sure. She published her tech busting manifesto on Medium, the same blog which gave us the Uber and Google women rebellions.

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Warren overlooks one inconvenient fact. The billionaire freeloaders of Silicon Valley are the…