Posted on 05/19/2021 3:57:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
After the corporate media firestorm following the events at Capitol Hill on January 6th, Missouri senator Josh Hawley had a wakeup call. His publisher, Simon & Schuster, dropped his book, The Tyranny of Big Tech. They blamed him for taking part in a “disturbing, deadly insurrection,” and decided to punish him accordingly.
Within days, Hawley’s book had a new publisher. Conservative house Regnery Publishing is dedicated to “building strong minds and fostering rigorous debate.” It saw value in the hefty topic which Hawley has taken on for the majority of his career: reigning in big tech monopolies.
This book is a crash course in the history of monopolies and corporate liberalism which led to the rise of big tech. From the birth of the railway industry to the current state of online censorship, Hawley offers readers the information they need to take back control of their privacy and communications.
Big Tech corporations have already paid numerous fines for violating antitrust laws across the globe. They are constantly under investigation for suppressing information and potentially did so to sway the 2020 election. Facebook and Twitter are especially noted for suppressing important information in the last Presidential election regarding Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s potentially illegal business dealings with Ukraine.
Facebook actively censored the story and Twitter went even further. It disconnected users’ ability to retweet, link, or DM the story. Only after the election, in December, did federal prosecutors confirm that Biden’s son was under investigation for the alleged crimes.
Hawley lays out factual evidence of privacy abuses by the major online corporate monopolies, some from the beginning of their creation. From day one, Google was designed to follow users’ online movements and collect data.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“David Barnett, the CEO and Founder of PopSockets, testified at the field hearing that Amazon required his company ‘to pay almost two million in marketing dollars in order to remove illegal product from the Amazon marketplace.’”
on page 51 of:
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_digital_markets.pdf?utm_campaign=4493-519
“During the investigation, the Subcommittee heard repeated concerns that Amazon leverages its access to third-party sellers’ data to
identify and replicate popular and profitable products from among the hundreds of millions of listings on its marketplace.
“Armed with this information, it appears that Amazon would:
“(1) copy the product to create a competing private-label product; or
“(2) identify and source the product directly from the manufacturer to free ride off the seller’s efforts, and then cut that seller out of the equation.
on pages 274-275 of:
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_digital_markets.pdf?utm_campaign=4493-519
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