ANALYSIS/OPINION_ Fight back against Big Tech oligarchs before free speech disappears

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Fight back against Big Tech oligarchs before free speech disappears

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By Dean Karayanis - - Thursday, July 8, 2021

ANALYSIS/OPINION:


When YouTube recently banned radio host Eric Metaxas for violating their speech guidelines, it hardly rated a headline. We’re too accustomed to Big Tech canceling people, and too afraid we’ll be next. But cases like this have inspired a bipartisan push in Congress to break up the likes of Google (owners of YouTube), Facebook, Apple and Amazon, which presume to decide if your opinion is valid in the public square.

The First Amendment prevents Congress from limiting speech, but the Founders didn’t envision corporations so massive, they could silence citizens more effectively than any law. I’ve spoken to candidates who fear crossing them because Big Tech can throttle their reach — or worse, deny them sweet campaign cash. To paraphrase an axiom: A company big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.

I don’t know Eric Metaxas or listen to his show. I have heard of his landmark biography, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, which he shared with President Obama at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in a funny and inspiring speech. But supporting rights shouldn’t be conditional on fellowship. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s fellow anti-Hitler pastor Martin Niemöller warned: First the Nazis came for the socialists, then trade unionists, then Jews; each time, he said nothing, for he wasn’t in those groups.

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