Ilana Mercer: Locked Down And Locked Out: First The State, Then Silicon Valley

Aa a coinage goes, deep tech is superior to the Big-Tech term. It better captures the deforming power and tentacular reach into state and civil society of the high-tech monopolists.

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That reach notwithstanding, many libertarian-minded and “small-government conservatives” (a contradiction in terms, considering the national debt is $28 trillion) have been stalwart defenders of the rights of Deep Tech to deploy unprovoked financial force to kneecap those users who don’t conform to the tech oligarchy’s monolithic image of the Ideal Citizen.

David French, writer at the Dispatch—and one of the many political dwarfs tossed periodically at Donald Trump by Never Trumpsters (hey, dwarf tossing is a cruel sport)—emphasized the immutable right of private platforms to de-platform (limit and throttle) “millions of Americans who engage in wrongthink,” the president included.

https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2021/01/15/locked-down-and-locked-out-first-the-state-then-silicon-valley-n2583188

Ilana Mercer: Locked Down And Locked Out: First The State, Then Silicon Valley

Ilana Mercer: Locked Down And Locked Out: First The State, Then Silicon Valley

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