Politics.
I wonder if this might be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. There are certainly reasons to be concerned about the undue influence held by large technology companies, and about the sometimes underhanded and questionably-legal methods used at times to suppress competition. Care must be taken to ensure that the economy of scale does not turn into a monopoly situation. But I have to wonder... is that the real reason behind this concern? Or are we looking a something much more political: A reaction to a belief now popular among Republican politicians, that Big Tech's claims to be moderating their networks of racist and homophobic content are disproportionately silencing conservative speakers, and this threat to conservative ideology must be opposed?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
