(11-01-2019 11:24 AM)bullet Wrote:  "...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.

I think #2 is the greater factor here than 1 and 3 which I see as sidelines attributable to the second, which represents profit.

The Tech Companies see great power in having the "world" use their products, rather than just the U.S.. The see no benefit to trade restrictions based on National Security (therefore they are globalists by nature), they don't like the interference that religion creates for their desires to sell to Hindu, Muslim, Buddhists, and other global religions so they want to stay away from religion altogether which plays into the agenda of the LGBTQ's agenda, and they make oodles from China which as a government has no religion but the state and which wields coercive power to get the Tech companies to fall in line in order to have access to their markets.

So in short Bullet they are by nature, as many multinational corporations are, at odds with the concept of the nation state and as a direct result at odds with treaty law, constitutional law, parliamentary law, and would much rather deal with communists which operate like a corporation (independent of anything but self interest since the welfare of their people is a lower priority).

Add all of that up and you can see the dichotomy of values (or lack thereof) and you can also see the #1 issue for anti-trust legislation for a free society. What Tech companies are openly doing (while thumbing their noses at our nation) is meddling in elections to seek the outcome most friendly to their bottom line and their philosophy. They have zero loyalty to the nation, and only acknowledge shareholders (which are international) as their accountability.