Draft:Big Tech

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It just works Technology

Programming for Dummies

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Some dare call it Conspiracy

What THEY don't want you to know!

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Sheeple wakers

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Big Tech refers to the major tech corporations that have come to control much of the mainstream Internet, particularly search engines and social media. While some concerns about it regarding monopolies are indeed valid, in many cases "Big Tech" is used by wingnuts as a conspiracy-hawking snarl word whenever they don't get their way or face consequences for what they say on social media.

Legitimate use

The two major corporate search engines (Google and to a far lesser extent Microsoft's Bing) have become so powerful that they have now made it very difficult for new players to enter the market. Particularly Google, which has long been synonymous with search engines in general- and in its ongoing antitrust case, is being credibly accused of buying special treatment for its search engine from major device/operating system creators to always make it the default.

As a right-wing snarl word

"Big Tech" is often used in ridiculous conspiracy theories involving major tech companies and the government spying on you, accusations of "corporate socialism" (which is exactly the opposite of what the big technology companies want), and as a general snarl word.

Elongated Musket's tantrums

See the main article on this topic: Elon Musk § Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Tweets

When he impulse-bought Twitter (now X), billionaire entrepeneur, edgelord and Internet troll Elon Musk repeatedly cited the libertarian right's overzealous (and rather selective) interpretation of what constitutes "freedom of speech" to make a quick buck off the perpetual rage of the United States' most gullible political demographic by appealing to as many of their obsessions as possible. Basically, Musk convinced them that he is helping "protect" conservative thought from censorship by Big Tech, when in reality he himself has become Big Tech, even doing some actual ideologically-motivated censorship himself by firing engineers who disagreed with him as a part of his sweeping layoffs.