Time for government intervention

In PJ Media, Michael Van Der Galien addresses the issue of Big Tech having the power to destroy conservatives like Steven Crowder.

...The reason I compare Facebook and Google to governments is a) their position in the market, which is pretty much unassailable, b) their enormous power to influence people, and c) their power to destroy or make people's livelihoods. The only difference is that Google and Facebook can't lock anyone up yet... although one could very argue that banning and deplatforming users is the Internet equivalent of putting them in jail.

It's time for conservatives to end this blind spot and to face the truth: multinationals can pose a serious danger to individual liberty. This is why the government has the right to intervene in most markets in order to prevent or break up monopolies. Facebook and YouTube have created such a position for themselves, and they are now using it to silence those who dare disagree with their radical leftwing politics. If government doesn't step in, they'll get away with it -- and the most vocal and influential opinion makers on the right will lose their platform as a result. I can hardly imagine a worse scenario for democracy itself.

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