Time for big tech to respect liberty or be forced

Sanjeev from The Times of India said that The internet has pretty much been the Wild West for over two decades, which is a good thing and has allowed the best among various internet companies to grow.

We have all benefited. To me the greatest value-add of social media is that I can directly “follow” the smartest people on earth: Nobel prize winners and others whose opinions I find worth considering.

But somewhere down the line the winners in this internet battle (Big Tech companies like Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Twitter) seem to have become too big for their boots. They have begun to trample upon the liberty of their customers.

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