Here’s How Everyone Is Attacking Big Tech
Critics are multiplying, from the left and right of the political spectrum
From left: Colin Stretch, general counsel at Facebook, Sean Edgett, acting general counsel at Twitter, and Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at Google, being sworn in at a Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergShakespeare said “It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and other technology juggernauts are in the fight of their lives over accusations they failed to heed the Bard’s warning. A backlash is building that threatens to tie the companies’ hands in powerful ways.