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 Excerpt from a front-page newspaper article today. 

“But a lot of the tech bros are just weak-kneed, unprincipled capitalists, terrified of bad PR, keen to protect their mega-wealth, willing to bend to any cultural-elite edict and lacking any discernible principles to stop them.” 
 Agree. The recent Zuckerberg incident is representative. 
 “Western governments appear to be swapping the carrot and stick for a baseball bat when it comes to encouraging social-media firms to censor.” 
 “[A]llowing vast swathes of the digital public square to become the sole property of a handful of weird, easily influenced billionaires was a truly terrible idea. spiked”