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In Cushed: Big Tech's War on Free Speech, Buck exposes the bullying and predatory behavior from the Big Tech giants who have used their technologies and their unbelievable market shares to stifle commerce and censor free speech. He spells out the inside details of how these companies restrict free markets, stop competition, increase prices, and ultimately hurt consumers.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS to CRUSHED: Big Tech's War on Free Speech by Ken Buck
FOREWORD
Chapter 1
Censoring Political Debate: Conservative Ideas Under Attack
Chapter 2
America’s Heritage: Free Markets and Free Speech
Chapter 3
Repeat Until True: How and Why Big Tech Fans the Flames that Divide UsChapter 4
A Patented Disgrace: Big Tech Invents the Destruction of Innovation
Chapter 5
The Puppet Show: How Big Tech Censors and Devalues the Press
Chapter 6
A Poisoned Apple : Self-Preferencing and the App Store’s Restrictive Power
Chapter 7
INSTA-GRAB: Mergers & Acquisitions (& Deceptions) at Facebook
Chapter 8
GOOGLE’s AD-VANTAGE : Collusion, Privacy, and Portability
Chapter 9
JUNGLE PREDATOR: How Amazon’s Monopoly Abuses Destroy Competition, Innovation, and Free Speech
Chapter 10
DOUBLE TALKING DOUBLE STANDARDS: Hypocrisy of Big Tech on Free speech
Chapter 11
THE SWAMP: All of the Above
Chapter 12
OBLIGATION OF DEMOCRACY: A Citizens Guide to Reigning in Big Tech
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Info autore
KEN BUCK is a Republican Congressman representing Colorado's 4th Congressional District. He was first elected to Congress on November 4, 2014, and is currently serving his fourth term in the United States House of Representatives.Congressman Buck is the Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law. He also serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship; and on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, The Pacific, and Nonproliferation.
Buck learned the value of hard work from his grandfather, who opened a shoe repair store in Greeley in the 1930s. One of three brothers, he worked his way through high school, college, and law school as a janitor, truck driver, furniture mover, and ranch hand.
After law school, Buck worked for Congressman Dick Cheney (R-WY) on the Iran-Contra Investigation and then became a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1990, he joined the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office where he became the Chief of the Criminal Division.
In 2002, Buck joined Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in Greeley as a business executive. Starting in 2004, Buck was elected Weld County District Attorney three times. He led a staff of more than sixty people with a strong record of criminal prosecution and crime prevention. Under his leadership, the crime rate in Weld County dropped 50%, one of the best records in the country.
Congressman Buck is a Christian and a leader in his profession and community. He has volunteered and served on the boards of many important community groups. As District Attorney, Buck brought together community leaders to create the Juvenile Assessment Center. The Center has helped more than two thousand kids and their families get back on the right path in life.
Buck’s son Cody graduated from West Point and served in the U.S. Army and his daughter Kaitlin works as a business executive in Colorado.
He lives & works in the Boulder, CO metro area and Washington, D.C.
https://buck.house.gov/
Riassunto
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK
“No one—conservative or liberal—should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.” — Senator Ted Cruz
When the Founding Fathers drafted our Constitution, they had no idea there would be a “Big Tech” – nor any concept of the immense power these companies would wield over our people. But the Fathers did provide mechanisms -- a system of check and balances -- for the people to stop dangerous monopolies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon from suffocating our business and political life. Few know more about these mechanisms than Rep. Ken Buck, who has been a leader in Congress fighting against the unchecked power of Big Tech.
In CRUSHED: Big Tech’s War on Free Speech, Buck exposes the bullying and predatory behavior from the Big Tech giants who have used their technologies and their unbelievable market shares to stifle commerce and censor free speech. He spells out the inside details of how these companies restrict free markets, stop competition, increase prices, and ultimately hurt consumers. Even worse, Big Tech companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook are actively censoring conservative news and views, as they openly manipulate information provided to voters. Ken Buck shows how these tech giants are true monopolies and their concentrated power pose a serious danger for our democracy.
In contrast to the robber barons of the Gilded Age who simply posed a threat to commerce, Big Tech threatens the very core of our political system. They control the flow of information shared with the public for their own financial and political gain. In CRUSHED, Ken Buck argues that while Americans are under siege by Big Tech, we are not destroyed. We can still take on Big tech, fight back and even win. The future of our nation depends on it, he says.
IT IS TIME TO FIGHT BACK!
Prefazione
FOREWORD by Senator Ted Cruz to CRUSHED: Big Tech's War on Free Speech by Ken Buck
Big Tech poses the single greatest threat to free speech and democracy in our country. My friend Ken Buck has assembled a must-read dossier that lays out the enormous dangers we face as a nation right now.
CRUSHED exposes Big Tech’s most egregious abuses of power — from censorship, discrimination, and political favoritism to self-preferencing, self-dealing and predatory, anti-competitive efforts. Any other industry that trampled free speech rights, destroyed the playing field for competition, and silenced politicians and charity groups for their political views would face a mountain of lawsuits for their brazen abuses of power.
These companies have spent tens of millions of dollars on campaigns to stop Congress from leveling the playing field for all and they have entrenched Silicon Valley lackeys in key government regulatory positions.
Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst would be stunned by Big Tech’s near-total control over communication and the dissemination of information. John D. Rockefeller would marvel at Big Tech’s economic control of the marketplace. Big Tech are the robber barons of the 21st century. As the adage goes, “With great power comes great responsibility.” But what has Big Tech done? Abused that power at every turn. There has never been such an aggregation of power in the history of humankind as Big Tech enjoys today with the money, monopoly power, and hubris that comes with the unchecked exercise of power.
This book arrives resounding like a five-alarm warning and explains the threats we face in great detail.
Ken demonstrates his commitment to open discourse, he explains how monopolies actively censor and restrict free markets, and he shows how society suffers from anti-competitive tactics. In CRUSHED, Ken details the predatory, bullying, and biased behavior of Big Tech.
Ken is a conservative fighter and a tireless champion for freedom and liberty. I am grateful for Ken’s work on behalf of the American people. His book is a public service, and he does a masterful job of connecting the dots. Ken makes the unassailable case that we must unite to stop Big Tech billionaires from censoring speech, stopping the exchange of ideas, manipulating voters, filtering information, and quashing their political opponents.
Senator Ted Cruz
2022
