Big Tech, for the purposes of this article we’ll consider them Google, Facebook, and Twitter, combined have for years been receiving mostly local and state tax breaks and perks amounting to billions of dollars. One year within the last decade, 2014, Google received $630 million in subsidies and in 2018 Big Tech received $9.3 billion in taxpayer cash over the preceding five years. It simply has to end.
Big Tech is not a public service. They are ideologically driven communications platforms who regularly censor and cancel views they don’t like, which generally tend to be conservative opinion. They are Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth come to life. In fact this writer, for over a year, has been suspended by Twitter. No reason, no appeal, no nothing. Just canceled. Now granted, this is rather a badge of honor amongst conservatives of my sort (insert sounds of the happily smug pouring martinis and laughing). Facebook toys with occasional censorship tactics when it feels the twitch to be an arbitrary wanker. However, the public may be tiring of their hijinks.
From the New York Post: “A Fox News survey of 1,001 registered voters found that 63 percent believe Facebook has too much power. By comparison, 68 percent of respondents said they believe the federal government has too much power and 65 percent said they think the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has too much power. Voters aren’t much more fond of other Big Tech mainstays, with 55 percent believing Google has too much power, 53 percent saying Twitter has too much power and 52 percent saying the same about Apple. Fifty-one percent of respondents said that Amazon has too much power, the same percentage who said the FBI is too powerful.
Paradoxically, the vast majority of respondents say that they have either a Facebook account (70 percent), an Amazon account (76 percent), or a Google account (81 percent), though the percentage of Facebook users is down four percentage points from 2018.
Despite the widespread use of social media companies, a whopping 69 percent of respondents said they don’t trust those firms to make ‘fair decisions’ about what information is posted on their platforms, compared to just 26 percent who said they do.”
Should we work to shut them down, as junior fascists of Left and Right would have us do to views they disagree with? Of course not. They are private firms and may do as they please. But that doesn’t entitle them to government funds, especially when said governments of the leftist variety play political footsie with them. Twitter bans conservatives, viola, it gets subsidies from blue states. Facebook cancels conservatives and again, as if by magic, the government cash rolls in. Google promotes the loony left cause de jour, blue states can’t wait to throw money at it.
American tax dollars have better places to go, like law enforcement, the space program, and the military, than leftist comms platforms that actively seek to denigrate the United States and conservatives to boot. We should stop subsidizing Big Brother. Now.
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