How Big Government And Big Tech Conspire Against Voters

The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 15, 2021 | KYLE SAMMIN

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Until recently, worrying about the power of large corporations was the left’s job. It makes sense. Conservatives have historically been champions of the market, and large corporations have usually stayed out of the culture wars. They once reflected American culture, rather than shaping it. Big government was always the bigger threat to our liberty.

Now, as social media giant Twitter bans the personal account of the president of the United States and even deletes tweets from @POTUS, the account owned by the U.S. government, one is forced to wonder who is more powerful, Washington or Silicon Valley? Twitter, acting in routine combination with Facebook, now claims the power to decide whether the people should be able to read the words of their own government.

Although it was published in September, Allum Bokhari’s prescient book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, explains how the relationship between corporate power and the American people has changed for the worse. As Big Tech companies have grown to monopoly strength, they have abandoned what pretenses they ever held of neutrality and are now, in Bokhari’s telling, trying to determine the results of the nation’s elections.

Companies typically have profit as their goal. That tends to mean they stay out of politics, reflecting a broad middle ground designed to alienate the fewest people and get business from the most.

But the customers of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are not you; you and your personal data are their product. Their customers are the advertisers to whom they sell that data. That, combined with their internet oligopoly, creates weird, never-before-seen incentives. They have no need to care about your opinion. Instead, they will use their power to shape it.

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[Carl Vehse]

The DeepStaters and Big Tech have conspired to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

[familyop]

We facilitate the oligopoly, but we don’t need to. Start finding vendors and social media for yourselves. Make lists. In the past, we used tablets, notepads or Rolodexes.

http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=oligopoly
oligopoly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

oligopoly
n 1: (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a
commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers
and each one can influence prices and affect competitors

[Truthoverpower]

They need the enemy

They’ve lost Americans by the bushel