democratize information. and, to be fair, in many ways they still do, helping people express themselves, connect with others, helping entrepreneurs find customers and artists to find an audience. but there s a dark side, and it seems to be getting darker. we talk about the how big tech s control over our society s orwellian. 1984 and big brother. there s another george orwell book that s just as relevant, animal farm, where the revolutionaries turn into the very thing they fought against. that s what we re seeing now, the idealists of silicon valley are also the most menacing authoritarians of our age because they threaten the foundation of a free society, free expression. when you re doing the bidding of the government and taking down content they don t find convenient, how is that any different from running pravda in the soviet union or xi jinping s china daily? when you re censoring just one
is why does this keep happening. and at the core of that is the concentration of power in the hands of a very small number of individuals steve: yes, yes. who impose their values on the rest of us by the design and scaling of these technologies without any constraint, without transparency and without accountability. steve: exactly. concentrate i use that phrase so often in so many contexts about so many policy areas. rob, you can add to that or maybe move into some of the recommendations you have for what we should do about that. sure. well, we think we re leaving an era in which we, for the past 30 years basically, left it to the silicon valley geniuses who are the innovators and the entrepreneurs who have come up with some of these extraordinary technologies. and then we ve been given a dream of tech know utopian nhl or at least optimism that these would be good for humanity and democracy. over the past phi years, we ve seen this backlash against big tech. so i think we re
side of a political aisle because your advertisers in the woke boardrooms of corporate america don t want to be associated with the views of the masses they despise? how are you anything other than a partisan editorial force when you interfere in an election by burying legitimate news stories that could hurt your candidate? how is that democratizing information? big tech isn t democratizing information, big tech is manipulating information in a way that undermines democracy. here s the bottom line. we ll never change them. the only answer, as i ve argued for years, is to break them up so their authoritarianism can no longer hurt our democracy and our society. break them up into tiny pieces so so everyone s voice can be heard. if you want to hear the conversation that youtube censored, you can download our podcast or go to steve hilton.tv and watch it there. and right now let s fight back
a professor of medicine and public health. he s precisely the type of person that americans should be hearing hearing fromming from. he s precisely the type of person to be engaging in a scientific debate, and that s what people need to hear. that s the only reason why his voice is able to be heard now, which is stunning, is because there was an equally powerful platform if, which is fox news, that said, hey, we re going to call you out on this. we re going to call you to account for this naked censorship of scientific debate. that s not okay. and so we need to stand up for all of the diverse, small independent voices that don t have a platform like fox news and say that this will not be tolerated. steve: that s exactly right. well put. thank you, kristin. well, look, if you want to hear more conversations like that with jay and more from kristin, make sure you check us out at california rebel base.com. and now let s take a step back and look at the big picture when it comes to big t
hotline, get their line in front of women so those regret abortions many do after they take the first abortion pill can get access to life-saving treatment, this is a violation of women s rights, violation of children s rights and its shameful and unprecedented that google would side with the abortion industry in such a dramatic way. how worry should every american be about big tech s influence on our personal medical decisions? it is incredibly problematic and devastating and has real-world impact on the lives of women and their children and every american regardless of where you stand on abortion or any other political issue should be concerned when tech starts to metal with what information people can access when they go to google and search engine, the biggest search engine, it is incredibly problematic and devastating and has real-world impact and lives will be lost because google is trying to hide life-saving information that is fda approved, fda approved drugs from women at