Tech Companies vs. The Trump administration

by Cooper Baehr

Since the capital riot, Twitter has blocked Trump and other extreme republicans. Other tech companies have followed this action.

Since my first edition of Big Tech Weekly, I never thought I would cover Amazon and Apple because they seemed like “better behaved” companies. But here I am writing this, and Apple and Amazon web services have blocked the new version of Twitter made by Republicans, where conservatives can share ideas and information without being blocked, censored, or suspended from the platform. This was a war. Apple blocked the app in the app store and blocked the website, Google blocked the app in Google Play and also blocked the website, Amazon controls a very large system of generators that basically control the internet so Amazon web services blocked the website, and we all know what Facebook and Twitter have done involving censorship. So in the last week of anticipation for the next president, all four of the main Big Tech companies have blocked, censored, controlled, taken over, terminated, the Trump administration in some way. This event has shown many how much control Big Tech has over internet conversations, whether it’s Facebook and Twitter censorship, Apple’s blocking of an app, Google’s blocking of Trump’s YouTube account, and Amazon blocking a conservative conversation website. But then there are products like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, etc. that can almost control funds. Think of the Trump administration and its voters, they might just not have access to these platforms, or worse, they could go as far as to limit the money the Trump administration could have. Though against the law, tech companies could easily disguise it as a hack, bug, or virus.

This is the biggest Big Tech attack we have seen all year. Every last tech company blocked Parlor, and there are many more “crimes” these companies have committed.