Posted on 01/04/2021 6:21:46 PM PST by WTanner1776
Before delving into why I think that Big Tech is the enemy of freedom, let me start by saying that I hate regulation. Like absolutely, 99%, in almost all situations hate it. In that vein, my thoughts about government intervention in the economy come more or less straight out of Atlas Shrugged and Free Market Revolution. That’s one of the reasons why Trump has had such a successful presidency and will win again in 2020; he has deregulated America to make it great again.
But, 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 and are just using corporatism and crony capitalism to enrich themselves and their multi-national corporations. 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 every day. 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.
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Not so for the new monopolists. Greed is their mantra. For the Love of Money is the root of all Evil.
Bill Gates shut down the f’ing world. No duh.
Big government and Big Business go hand in hand.........................
Its the only media that can control the masses. Even I won’t give up my fb account.
Huh. I never realized Bill married a guy.
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