Big Tech has become a tyranny
by Tom Slater, spiked:
Facebook’s banning of Donald Trump sets a terrifying precedent.
In a crowded field, those cheering the suspension of Donald Trump’s Facebook account might just be the most idiotic people in political life today.
The decision announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday to close down Trump’s page for the rest of his presidency, perhaps indefinitely, represents the most profound assertion yet of Big Tech’s right to police democratic politics.
At a stroke, unaccountable billionaire capitalists have decided to deprive a democratically elected president – the leader of the free world, no less – access to a large part of what now constitutes the public square.
A line has been crossed that can never be uncrossed.
And yet, among commentators and politicos, many of them liberals and left-wingers, this has been met not with shock and horror, but a boneheaded chorus of ‘what took you so long?’
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