"...Both of these developments come at a time when Big Tech companies, from Facebook and Twitter to YouTube and Google, have established a pattern of arbitrarily silencing voices – overwhelming conservative voices – with whom they disagree...."

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/...y-is-wrong

This thread is not so much about Cruz's topic, which is whether twitter is right about banning political ads, but about why this has become such an issue.

Why is hi-tech overwhelmingly liberal? In the South, its hard to find a non-Black accountant or engineer who is not conservative. But hi-tech is overwhelmingly liberal.

I've got three theories:
1) Its very free wheeling, which lends itself to libertarians. Many libertarians have been turned off by Republican emphasis on old fashioned views on social issues.
2) Tech leaders are the ultimate in robber barons, using and abusing their employees, putting many on contract status. While many employees do very well, the leaders become richer than Rockefeller. Many other employees struggle in the high cost locales that hi-tech businesses gather. So like the labor movement in the 1880s, hi-tech workers are turning left. Meanwhile the leaders are so rich, left/right doesn't matter, as long as they continue to get favorable regulatory environments.
3) Hi-tech workers are not liberal. Only those willing to work in California. And that is where the biggest tech companies are. So tech workers in non-Silicon Valley corporate computer departments are not so liberal, but the leadership of the tech industry is.