How Can Conservatives Fight Back Against Big Tech?
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Image by Wynn Pointaux from Pixabay. Article by Corbin Barthold. Techdirt – January 27, 2021.
Right wingers are demanding that their political leaders do something, anything. There must be a response to Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump, and to Amazon Web Services’ shutdown of Parler. Republicans, once so ardent for free markets, want the government to teach private tech companies a lesson they won’t soon forget. Nationalize them. Prosecute them. Whatever. […]
Freezing a competitor out of a market for economic reasons can, indeed, be an antitrust violation. That is not at all the same as refusing to deal with a company because of the abhorrent opinions it holds, spreads, or condones. After the storming of the Capitol on January 6, a prominent QAnon account proclaimed that a death cult secretly runs the planet, that this cult stole the election, and that President Trump had ensnared the cult in a sting operation. […]
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