“They’re a private company – they can do what they want.”
We’ve all seen leftists say this as they defend Silicon Valley’s blatant suppression of conservative people and ideas. To say, “they’re a private company” is to suggest that private property and free market economics are the ideal, and those values should be protected in the United States. Yet, those leftists will cheer as the Supreme Court, governors, and mayors issue rulings which trample on private property, private wealth, and gun ownership in a bid to advance leftist ideology. I don’t have to elaborate to you all on how they are hypocrites.
Pretend I own a multi-billion dollar corporation. I am a far-leftist ideologue. I spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to prop up media companies and NGOs which espouse political values I agree with. I make efforts to shut down dissenting opinions in media. I use my wealth and influence to promote politicians who share my values, and are willing to use the state to advance those values. I organize my peers in my industry to think and behave as I do, and have them promote our ideology. We work to push our propaganda into every corner of media and industry. We seek to sway the public to accept state-power, but only in support of our ideology.
Am I champion of the free market? Am I a paragon of liberty? Am I rallying support for a nation-wide love and respect of private property? I spend my life and wealth seeking to destroy the values of liberty, but when people call me out for it, I hide behind the phrase “private property!” I am a subversive and hypocritical scumbag.
These companies can’t pay a mafia of armed men to suppress your liberty, but they can beseech the government to do it for them. It is time to treat this behavior as we would any other aggressor or initiator of force and violence.
A man who tries to assault, rape, and kill a woman has lost his right to life in the act. We understand that at any point, that woman can pull a gun and kill him in an act of self defense, and she would be 100% right to do so. For him to plead, “Oh no, don’t you value my life and my agency as a human being?” would be an incredible act of hypocrisy, as he has shown he does not actually value those ideas, because he does not afford others that respect.
It is time we apply that same logic universally, to all actors in society. These companies do NOT value the property, life, or liberty of people. They seek to suppress liberty and dialogue. They think using the government to force others to bend the knee is morally acceptable. Thus, they should be subject to their own moral standards. They should be regulated at the federal level to be neutral at the very least, and pro-liberty at the very best.
2 replies on “Observation: Big Tech is not “free market””
In reply and confirmation to Nicholas Hunter from a tech insider.
I have been on the inside of these Silicon Valley tech companies and they are worse than you implied. I sat in a meeting where they seriously discussed using an automobile’s AI to call the nearest police cruiser if the driver or any passenger failed to put on a seat belt. This was based on video cameras placed strategically about the vehicle that could see everyone and the AI was so sophisticated, it could tell you actually had your seat belt on, or just buckled behind your back. Soon to be mandatory in all new cars.
On top of this, they thought it would be a good idea to send the video and audio of your conversations to the police cruiser in real time. I can’t even imagine how many laws and Constitutional amendments that would violate. I mentioned that The Constitution of The United States of America was still valid and in force. I was immediately and with extreme hostility thrown out of the meeting and was fired a week later.
The lame excuse was because I used fowl language to my boss who had brow beaten me into a rage for about four days straight until I told him where to go, very impolitely. I considered this a great favor and was ready to “Go Gault” by this point anyway. These people are pure evil.
This is one of the reasons I still keep my 2006 Neon. I only need to drive about 2 hours a week, and it still works.
I do work in tech, but my industry specialization has me in a fairly conservative branch of work. If I ever do leave to do more “artsy” work, I think I’ll be wearing a camera for most of my interactions with people. Veritas has me wondering just how bad it really is out there, and your story seems like its far worse.