SAN FRANCISCO — One of the 14 presidential candidates coming to the Bay Area this weekend for the California Democratic Convention already stands head and shoulders above the rest, in the form of a billboard that takes aim at Big Tech.
The in-your-face ad unveiled by Sen. Elizabeth Warren is generating a lot of buzz among tech workers who commute via Caltrain. It reads "Break Up Big Tech" and shows a profile of the Massachusetts senator's profile.
Warren declined to speak with KCBS Radio about the sign that stands on Townsend Street, near the central Caltrain station.
But she argued recently on CNN that Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are "platform utilities" with an unfair advantage over smaller competitors.
"You can run the platform, that is you can be the umpire in the baseball game and you can run an honest platform,' said Warren. "Or you can be a player, that is you can have a business, or you can have a team in the game, but you don't get to be the umpire and have a team in the game."
Warren and 13 other presidential candidates will be in San Francisco this weekend to pitch their policy ideas to more than 3,000 California Democrats at Moscone Center.
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