Amazon should have only one position: To be the best at its business of selling and delivering consumer products. That’s it.
A private company’s moral stance normally doesn’t matter this much. But with Big Tech firms, they are so LARGE that their political decisions impact the rights of everyone else.
Amazon controls half of the ecommerce market or more. It is a de facto cartel. When they ban people and products because they don’t like it, it is a violation of anti-competitive practices.
Facebook is 2 billion users - they are the digital public square. Their banning of entire groups (ex-Muslims, ex-gays, ex-liberals) and entire viewpoints is a violation of freedom of speech and freedom of association.
Google controls 90% of online adds and more than half of search thanks to Google books and Youtube. Their private prejudices against groups, viewpoints and products again restricts free speech and fair trade.
The solution is to go after them for anti-trust and anti-competitive practices. Break them up. And punish them for colluding to stop rival startups.
One example is the coordinated shut out of Twitter rival Gab.ai. Another was the coordinated effort by Big Tech AND banks to kill Patreon rivals like Freestarter. And Bitchute, a Youtube rival, was attacked via cutting off the payment processing.
And you have criminal collusion with Kickstarter and Patreon removing people Mastercard doesn’t like.
Big businesses working together to kill their rivals, whether by cutting off their access to capital or making them invisible in the digital public square, it criminal AND a violation of our civil rights.