Big Tech vs the working class – spiked
We need to talk about GoFundMe s withholding of millions of dollars from the Canadian truckers protesting against vaccine mandates. This is union-busting 21st-century style. This is a multimillion-dollar company using its corporate clout to starve working-class activists of funds. This is a signal from Silicon Valley, clear and loud, that it will wield its power to crush any form of political agitation from the lower orders that pushes too hard against the political consensus. Anyone who thinks this clash between a profit-making fundraising website and drivers pissed off at being pushed around by Covid authoritarians is just another weird online spat needs to think again. This is far more than that. It is a scoping out of the battlelines over freedom and power that are likely to define the internet era.
I’m starting to feel like I’m on the left now, except that I think Marxism and the Communists are so evil. And all the deeply insane Woke craziness. What’s causing it is the utter contempt for ordinary people that Silicon Valley and the rest of the “elites” have. They only thing they respect is power, obviously, so the Truckers are showing them that. I hope the US is next, but we’ll see.