Big Tech Criticism

This cluster centers on widespread criticism of big tech companies for their excessive power, hypocrisy, regulatory capture, and negative societal influence, often in response to their actions or lobbying.

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Keywords

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Sample Comments

iamleppert Mar 1, 2022 View on HN

What about “can’t stand big tech companies?”

AFascistWorld Apr 12, 2019 View on HN

Any of these big tech companies is not your friend.

Havoc Sep 26, 2025 View on HN

The way big tech is howling about this makes me think it’s probably a good idea

sj3k Mar 8, 2019 View on HN

what lobbyists are lobbying to break up big tech companies? Not everything is propaganda.

malfist Feb 7, 2025 View on HN

Big tech taking and not giving back, where have I heard this before?

maeil Jul 30, 2024 View on HN

Sounds like big tech's strategy to make you protest against regulating them is working brilliantly.

k310 Mar 1, 2025 View on HN

Translation: Big Tech has too much power when it disagrees with me or fact-checks me. Otherwise, it needs to be completely unregulated as in crypto.

0dayz Jul 5, 2022 View on HN

I will admit if it's big tech it's hard not to pounce at them

Ianjit Oct 9, 2025 View on HN

Big Tech will find a way of ruining it for you.

yummybear May 29, 2020 View on HN

What makes you think big tech follows the rules?