
To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past.

In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations-controlled by the robber barons of the modern era-are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades. The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke.Īmassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple-once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom-have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power.ĭecades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world.
