Conservatives must use antitrust to rein in big tech monopolies
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Monopolistic tech companies that censor conservative speech much be stopped by antitrust. Conservatives must pull together to back bills reining in the tech industry.
Mike Davis is the founder and president of the Internet Accountability Project, a conservative grassroots advocacy organization that opposes Big Tech and seeks to hold these companies accountable for their bad acts. He was previously chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee under the chairmanship of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA.
Big Tech’s threat to the free market was on full display in 2021 when Amazon, Apple, and Google blamed Parler (a startup competitor to Twitter) for January 6th (when it was largely organized on Facebook) and all three removed the free-speech social media application from their platforms in a span of approximately 24 hours. Amazon went as far as removing Parler from its cloud hosting service, which resulted in their website no longer being accessible on the public internet. Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store, which control 99 percent of the app marketplace, both removed Parler as well. The combined and coordinated effort made it impossible for Parler’s customers to access its services.