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The centralized power over US democracy (and other democracies) concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of unaccountable Silicon Valley oligarchs is stunning, unprecedented and unsustainable. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-facebook-apple-google-have-monopoly-power-should-be-split/
Before the election, Facebook and Twitter united to censor reporting by a major newspaper about Joe and Hunter Biden. They just banned it from spreading. Now they united to ban the President himself from their monopolistic platforms. Ponder the unaccountable power they wield.
I’m unlocking the article I wrote yesterday on how the intense fears and emotions provoked by the Capitol breach are being exploited and weaponized in historically familiar ways for new authoritarian measures. A new War on Terror has begun, domestically: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dangers-in-67f
I know liberals now like to talk like Reagan-era Commerce Secretaries — “private companies can do whatever they want (except decline to bake cakes that offend them)” — but that’s never applied to monopolies.
Twitter likely isn’t one but FB definitely is: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-facebook-apple-google-have-monopoly-power-should-be-split/
Twitter likely isn’t one but FB definitely is: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-facebook-apple-google-have-monopoly-power-should-be-split/
