Myth busted.
Common sense scrutiny proves the Internet and Big Tech are not the mythic result of laissez faire free market capitalism, but the real product of massive U.S. Government (USG) intervention via U.S. Internet industrial policy in Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
Only the “interactive computer service” (ICS) industry created and defined by the USG in Section 230, are endowed with elite, supra-national status, and lawless impunity of being “unfettered by Federal and State regulation.”
Big Tech’s defense against any potential governmental accountability is wielding the myth that their success is a result of their free market merit, innovation, and competitiveness.