Posted on 11/10/2020 3:43:43 PM PST by WTanner1776
In some rare circumstances, industry needs to be reigned in so that it doesn’t destroy society. The Gilded Age was one of those circumstances, for the reasons described in The Republic for Which It Stands. But even then, during the Gilded Age, at least the companies being regulated loved America. Carnegie and Rockefeller might have been monopolists, but they also cared about their country and wanted to make it better.
Now, however, that is no longer the case. Big Tech is the enemy of freedom because our modern tech monopolists don’t care one iota about the country. Jack Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and the others couldn’t care less about freedom of speech for the average American or what happens to the country. They just care about globalism and putting leftist ideas into action.
That can be seen everyday. Twitter silences and bans conservatives. Facebook, in many cases, won’t approve Trump’s campaign ads or even ads with a conservative bent! Google’s SEO blackbox allows it to hide conservative websites and blogs such as this one without any accountability. Even worse, those companies are collaborating with the fake news media and Democrats to spread lies.
That’s a huge problem for America. Conservatives need to wake up to it and, in whatever ways they are able, start fighting back against the Big Tech companies that are vigorously attacking freedom in America and lording their power over us.
(Excerpt) Read more at genzconservative.com ...
We need Alt Tech, an alternative to Big Tech.
Separate but equal won't cut it when it comes to free speech. We all deserve an equal voice in the same marketplace of ideas. It is our God-given and Constitutionally protected right.
The first amendment (free speech) does not apply on private property. You can’t go to your place of work and speak your mind and not face consequences.
They don’t seem to mind what looks like 300+ consecutive posts of MAD Magazine articles from the 60s and 70s...Some of that stuff could be thought of as being “controversial”, even now.
"The three private companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad were the Western Pacific Railroad Company, the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, and the Union Pacific Railroad Company."
When you have a monopoly on the routes people may use to get where they want to go, you don't get to decide that certain "deplorables" or "chumps" can't use your tracks.
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