Thread by @DarrenJBeattie

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Big Tech is an extension of the Globalist American Empire security state

Govt has contracted out (outsourced) it's digital surveillance tyranny to Big Tech

Beyond this technicality, whole public sector vs private sector distinction is fundamentally fake in this context

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In 2015 a lot of mainstream right was still caught up in the notion that we can't touch big tech because they're "private"

So for a while it was important to emphasize that private threats to liberty no less worrisome than govt threats to break out of that ideology

3/x But it's not 2015 anymore and now the mainstream MAGA world take is that private sector Big Tech is the REAL threat and we need to use Government to bring it to heel

Counter-signalling libertarians is a "normie" tier thing to do at this point. And diminishing returns

4/x The problem with the above is it loses sight of the fact that after all Big Tech isn't truly the private sector insofar as private sector represents a separate and distinct power base from government

5/x For all of the important things, "private sector" is simply the technicality the Gov't uses to get away with contracting out China-style surveillance state tyranny (China + child drag queens - national pride = Globalist American Empire)

6/x So basically the whole public sector private sector Govt vs big tech thing is ill conceived categorically

It's one big power network and increasing swaths of private sector function as nat sec cutouts---for a lot of the dirty work that would otherwise be unconstitutional