One factor that could possibly be mentioned for Customary Oil’s John D. Rockefeller. Though he was a monopolist, he by no means brazenly gloated nor mocked the rivals that he suppressed or destroyed. The identical can’t be mentioned of the twenty-first century blatant monopolist, Jack Dorsey of Twitter. Not content material to behave in tandem with different social media monopolists with a purpose to try and destroy his competitor, Parler, he rubbed salt within the wound he helped create by gloating about it with a mocking tweet.
As a result of Twitter completely banned President Trump together with its common crackdown on free speech, many Twitter customers have begun switching to Parler which for awhile made it the primary free app obtain.
#Parler is now the highest free app: pic.twitter.com/fs6batOr5y
— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) January 9, 2021
This clearly didn’t sit effectively with the Orwellian social media giants so appearing in tandem, Apple and Google eliminated entry to the Parler app adopted by Amazon eradicating Parler from its hosting service. Quickly afterwards, Parler fell from it is obtain rating because of the suppression by the social media monopolies resulting in this gloating tweet by Jack Dorsey:
— jack (@jack) January 10, 2021
There was a livid response to Dorsey’s Tweet a few competitor that posed a risk to his monopoly.
You’re a pathetic weasel. Please unfollow me earlier than you ban me.
Oh, and it’ll come for you too sooner or later. Learn historical past as a substitute of micro dosing all day.
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 10, 2021
holy shit that is an evil tweet
Sign solely hit number one as a result of Apple, live performance with different huge tech firms, nuked their competitors https://t.co/LJqew0Z9z7
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) January 10, 2021
The results of this collusion among the many huge social media companies to suppress rivals signifies that they’ve now boxed themselves right into a nook the place they’re pressured to go all out to proceed to help the Democrats sooner or later with a purpose to keep away from antitrust actions ought to the celebration they management lose energy.