Big tech is Big Brother.
In George Orwell’s “1984,” where Big Brother monitored the people’s every act, it was an unspeakably huge government bureaucracy that was running the show. The famed novel, published in 1949, warned of a dystopian society that many have since feared could soon become our actual fate.
In some post-World War II Eastern Bloc nations -- consider East Germany's Stasi, the secret police -- Big Brother was all too real in the day to day. Same in contemporary China.
But in America and across much of the rest of the world, our lives and daily doings are being scrutinized and analyzed and monetized by a small handful of ubiquitous giant tech companies that have become an integral part of most everyone's life. Big Brother is Google and Amazon, and Big Brother is watching.
When executives from four of the nation’s largest tech companies testified, remotely, before a congressional subcommittee last week, the ostensible reason was to discuss the anti-competitive nature of their businesses. On hand, via video due to the distancing requirements imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, were Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai. They did not receive a hero’s welcome, but were instead treated from the get-go as adversaries.
Though there were, in fact, questions about antitrust matters, there was also lots of grandstanding and hyperventilating, most notably from Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who seems to believe that shouting loudly and waving his hands about makes his points clearer.
Those looking for something to be concerned about should consider how difficult it is to get along without the tech giants. Don't want one of Apple's iPhones? Then you are stuck with one running Google's Android operating system -- unless you opt for an old-style dumb phone that cannot access the Internet.
To be sure, there are search engines besides Google, but Google runs so much -- maps for Lyft and Uber, to take just one example -- that avoiding the tech behemoth isn't easily done. And while there are other places to shop online besides Amazon, the retailing giant has its hands in more than most might expect, fulfilling orders for so many others and running all manner of Websites with its Amazon Web Services.
We are being watched, and in many cases -- on Facebook, most notably -- willingly let it happen.
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