Big Tech has become a tyranny – spiked
In a crowded field, those cheering the suspension of Donald Trump s Facebook account might just be the most idiotic people in political life today.
The decision announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday to close down Trump s page for the rest of his presidency, perhaps indefinitely, represents the most profound assertion yet of Big Tech s right to police democratic politics.
At a stroke, unaccountable billionaire capitalists have decided to deprive a democratically elected president the leader of the free world, no less access to a large part of what now constitutes the public square.
A line has been crossed that can never be uncrossed.
And yet, among commentators and politicos, many of them liberals and left-wingers, this has been met not with shock and horror, but a boneheaded chorus of what took you so long? .