One of the themes of my recent writing has been the strange new center to left tech consensus, which holds simultaneously that big tech is too powerful, and that it needs to exercise this immense power to the full by regulating content more aggressively./1

What we’re seeing now is an entirely predictable consequence of this consensus, which I described as “the new net delusion” in @tnajournal last year./2 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-new-net-delusion

For @unherd during the pre-election social media crackdown, I argued that today’s consensus is an odd synthesis of two seemingly opposed but linked worldviews: the anti-tech position of the 60s left and the techno-optimist cyber culture of decades later./3 https://unherd.com/2020/10/how-the-left-changed-its-tune-on-big-tech/