JD Vance Says Big Tech Has 'Too Much Power'

Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that 'we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,' despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump's inauguration earlier this month. From a report: 'They can either respect America's constitutional rights, they can stop engaging in censorship, and if they don't, you can be absolutely sure that Donald Trump's leadership is not going to look too kindly on them,' Vance said on 'Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.'

The comments came in response to the unusual attendance of a slate of tech CEOs at Mr. Trump's inauguration, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, Apple's Tim Cook, and Google's Sundar Pichai. The tech titans, some of whom are among the richest men in the world and directed donations from their companies to Mr. Trump's inauguration, were seated in some of the most highly sought after seats in the Capitol Rotunda.

Vance noted that the tech CEOs 'didn't have as good of seating as my mom and a lot of other people who were there to support us.' In an August interview on 'Face the Nation', the vice president outlined his thinking on big tech, saying that companies like Google are too powerful and censor American information, while possessing a 'monopoly over free speech' that he argued ought to be broken up.

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