From minimum wage laws to age verification, tech companies are facing new regulatory pressures, and often they choose to end service rather than comply.
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If Facebook is taking its cues from the government to mute vaccine skeptics, that complicates the “let business be business” argument.
You can’t use government to control big tech because at the end of the day, government and big tech are allies.
It’s become increasingly acceptable for tech companies to censor or deplatform prominent people and organizations who hold controversial or unpopular opinions.
The move towards privacy is global, and when privacy becomes a commodity, technology and the free market will provide it, whether Twitter or Facebook likes it or not.
Rather than the government advocating for increased regulation, consumers should be advocating for less government.