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Who Really Owns Big Digital Tech?

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Who Really Owns Big Digital Tech?
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Michael Rectenwald
Mises Institute
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By now, it should be perfectly clear that the most prominent Big Digital companies aren’t strictly private, for-profit companies. As I argued in “Google Archipelago,” they’re also state apparatuses, or governmentalities, undertaking state functions, including censorship, propaganda, and surveillance.
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., is a former professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the author of twelve books, including “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty” (2022), “Thought Criminal” (2020), “Beyond Woke” (2020), “Google Archipelago” (2019), “Springtime for Snowflakes” (2018), and “Nineteenth-Century British Secularism” (2016).
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