Glenn Greenwald:
Having unelected tech oligarchs ban duly elected members of Congress - or even the sitting President - from using their massive platforms is dystopian. Remember how many world leaders warned that FB & Twitter's banning of Trump was a threat to democracy.
As American liberals (including their journalists) yet again celebrate and express gratitude to tech giants for silencing their political enemies -- even elected officials -- compare their mindset to how the rest of the democratic world thinks to see how authoritarian they are.
US liberals don't realize what a rogue and authoritarian faction they are because their media outlets keep all dissent from them. When Big Tech banned Trump, it was denounced as dangerous by Merkel, Macron, UN & EU officials.
Even as their Party and leaders are overwhelmingly funded by large corporations, Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Democrats and liberals still like to posture as opponents of corporate power, yet they crave having unelected tech executives control and police political discourse.
The funniest part is how liberals invoke classic libertarian economics to justify this: "Corporations have the right to do what they want. If you don't like it, start your own platform!" Meanwhile, Dems say these platforms are classic illegal monopolies
But the more important point is this: Parler took up this challenge from liberals. They started their own platform to offer greater free speech.
Soon as they became the nation's most-downloaded app, Dems demanded its destruction & tech monopolies obeyed:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how...f-monopolistic
One last point: this censorship is not the sole decision of tech companies. Dems are using their majoritarian in DC power to threaten that they will pay unless they censor more. That's a union of state and corporate power and implicates the 1st Amendment:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/con...essure-on-tech
For the liberals who pop up on days like this with the libertarian cry: "if you don't like this censorship, go start your own social media company."
Here's a reminder of what happened when Parler did that and Dems & tech monopolies united to destroy it:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1477682091999612939