yes. corporations can be just as evil as a state, tell your libertarian friends.
Illiteracy: Failure to capitalize the beginning of sentences.
Logic errors: Bigotry. Redefinition fallacy (evil<->large corporation).
A corporation can certainly conduct itself in an evil or unlawful way, but that is not all corporations, or if it occurs, not all the time. To assume such is called 'bigotry'. Even then, they are not government.
You seem to have a problem with the Libertarian party. Fine. That is your right. It IS a logical fallacy to assume that anyone that disagrees with you is a member of the Libertarian party however. That's called 'bigotry'.
In the case of so-called 'big tech':
Twitter and Facebook, being websites claim protections under FRN Title 45, $230. This law protects websites from civil lawsuits over libel resulting from opinions by their users. Any forum website (such as JPP!) is also protected by this same law. JPP cannot be sued for any libel made by you. YOU are responsible, not JPP. Being a blind forum, JPP will not release personal information until directed to by the court, and only as specifically directed by the court. This is the other side of Section 230, and conforms with the 5th amendment.
Lately, both Twitter and Facebook have been censoring their users for political reasons, imposing their OWN view upon their sites. Many forum websites have done the same. JPP has not. ANY website that does so has LOST Section 230 protection, and is open to libel suits. Some people are already suing them.
The land of technology is an ever changing one. People have gotten pretty disgusted with the behavior of Twitter, for example. An open source version has been available for some time, called Gab. Many have moved there. I you like this type of service, I suggest you move there. Facebook itself is being replaced by other competing websites as well, some of them running as open source.
Forums that do this have competition from forums that choose not to be so abusive. JPP is a good example. Other political websites censor for political purposes. JPP doesn't. The rules here are simple and straightforward. NONE of them are politically based or used to censor for political reasons. There are other forums that are also good sites for open discussion, particularly in certain specific areas, such as global warming.
IBM used to be 'Big Tech'. They are almost a nothing now. Microsoft and later the open source community and the personal computer saw to that! Microsoft itself did not learn from that. They've been driven out of the automotive software market, cell phone market, web server market, portable media market, and they are now losing the desktop market. All to open source.
What is open source? It is capitalism. It is simply people writing their own software for others to use, and making their source code available. There are thousands of packages, including forum software and webserver software. There is even software to build yourself a web marketing site (similar to what Amazon does) entirely out of open source tools. The advantage of open source is that you have the source code. If you find a bug or want a new feature, just fix it or write it.
If you write stuff for the Cloud, there are three competitors providing these services: AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the most extensive (they invented the Cloud), Microsoft Azure (a rather distant 2nd place in the market), and Google Cloud Services (almost useless). NOTHING prevents you from forming another Cloud services company (or even a corporation!). There are numerous examples already available. Don't like AWS? Use Microsoft or fight with Google's problems, or you can always just write and provide your own services yourself (the old way of doing it!).
I don't think you realize just how much revenue Amazon lost because of their political censorship of one client on AWS. People saw that and Amazon lost a LOT of revenue for that one! They've learned their lesson on that one, for now.
On summary, AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure can ONLY exist because they provide something that people want to buy. This is capitalism. None of these corporations own government. Have they screwed up? Yes. They paid for it too! A corporation is made up of people, and people screw up. They aren't perfect!
In the end, censorship doesn't work. Sooner or later, word gets out. Those who try to censor only remove themselves from the conversation. Want an example? Look at how ineffective ignore lists are on JPP.
You can't stop the signal, Mel. -- Serenity