Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google,
Facebook, Amazon, and Apple--once symbols of American ingenuity and
freedom--have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and
political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big
Tech more targeted control over Americans' daily lives than any company
or government in the world. In this book, Senator Josh Hawley of
Missouri argues that these mega-corporations--controlled by the robber
barons of the modern era--are the gravest threat to American liberty in
decades. To reverse course, Hawley argues that we must correct
progressives' mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link
between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that
makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and
curbing the influence of corporate and political elites. Big Tech and
its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator
Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The
time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the
business and legal landscape of the digital world.
