Liberals also upset with Big Tech

 Washington Examiner:

Liberal anti-monopoly activists and Democrats are pressing for the government to prosecute Big Tech CEOs and top executives for monopolistic behavior and illegal activity that they say has gone egregiously unchecked.

The liberal antitrust activists are calling on the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission to criminally investigate and prosecute prominent tech leaders for hurting advertisers, investors, and some users by flouting the law while enriching themselves. 

The activists, led by the American Economic Liberties Project, a liberal think tank focused on antitrust issues, in recent letters to the agency have pointed to evidence of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top company executives engaging in fraudulent advertising practices, insider trading, and an illegal price-fixing deal with Google in the online ads space.

"There's an understanding in the public and the government that large corporations like the tech companies have operated above the law for a long time and so going after individual CEOs and executives is key to correcting bad behavior," said Sarah Miller, the executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project.

"The new crop of antitrust leaders in the government are really committed to aggressively enforcing the law when it comes to the Big Tech companies, and their executives in particular, in ways we haven't seen in a long time," Miller said.

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Liberals are upset that Big Tech is monopolizing the market for advertising which is killing support for local media. They have not joined forces with conservatives who are angry about the censorship of conservative points of view.  For example, Big Tech censored the story about the Biden family corruption that was revealed on Hunter Biden's laptop.  Pools suggest that had the public been more aware of the Biden family corruption Biden would have lost the election.

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