“Big Tech had bought enormous influence in the hallowed precincts of Washington, D.C. Second, Big Tech was (and is) desperate to protect its special relationship, its sweetheart deals, with Big Government.” TruthPoliticsCorruptionNonfictionBig GovernmentJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“Big Tech’s handouts from Big Government made the tech class what it is.” PowerCorruptionTyrannyControlBig GovernmentElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“This first generation of corporate barons left a lasting, if dubious, legacy: they made America more hierarchical, with new divisions between management and labor, between a professional class and everyday workers. They made the economy more centralized, consolidating power into a few mega-companies and their owners; they made it more globalized, keyed to international capital and trade. They diminished the voice of the ordinary citizen in society and politics in favor of educated, professionalized elites. In short, they gave America an entirely new political economy, what some historians have called corporate liberalism.” AmericaPoliticsCorruptionDivisionCorporatismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechRobber Barons Author:Josh Hawley
“As the power of the common person declined, the power of the Big Tech overclass multiplied: power over attention, over time, over users’ judgment, and soon power over their speech.” PowerCorruptionControlCensorshipElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“That sturdy American yeoman, the common man, was to be swept aside as the dominant force in American life and replaced by the enlightened, sophisticated, corporate aristocracy. America would become a corporate republic.” AmericaPoliticsCorruptionCorporateRepublicElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“Big Tech was the culmination of the corporate liberal ideology and the globalized economy it envisioned. This was an economy that by the early twenty-first century depended less and less on producing anything tangible, or on producers themselves, for that matter, but lavished ever greater rewards on the rarified, highly educated, largely urban technologist class.” PowerEconomyCorruptionControlGlobalizationElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“When the tech behemoths claim, as they routinely do, that they couldn’t exist without Section 230, they are only slightly exaggerating. They couldn’t exist without the new and improved Section 230 that they rewrote with the help of the courts.” PoliticsPowerCorruptionControlJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig TechSection 230 Author:Josh Hawley
“Today’s Big Tech barons have benefited from lax antitrust enforcement and outdated antitrust laws, from cozy relationships with supposed regulators, and from special protections in the law. All this must end.” PoliticsCorruptionElitismAntitrustJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig TechMonopolies Author:Josh Hawley
“Manipulative advertising based on personal characteristics is far from the passive distribution of third-party content Congress envisaged when it adopted Section 230 a quarter century ago. And behavioral ads drive many of tech platforms’ worst pathologies—the surveillance, the addiction race, the data pilfering. But Section 230’s shield from liability is worth far more to Big Tech than even behavioral advertising. Section 230 is the giant government subsidy on which Big Tech feeds and has built its empire.” PoliticsPowerCorruptionControlElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig TechSection 230 Author:Josh Hawley
“The tyranny of Big Tech can be challenged.” TruthHopePoliticsCorruptionJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley