CRUSHED by Congressman Ken Buck

CRUSHED

Big Tech's War on Free Speech

By Congressman Ken Buck

Foreword by Senator Ted Cruz

"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.”

—From the Introduction to CRUSHED

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 – including the ability to crush and censor dissent, free speech and a free press. But the Fathers did provide mechanisms – a system of checks and balances – for the people to stop dangerous monopolies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Amazon from suffocating our business and political lives. 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 Congressman Buck's new book, CRUSHED: Big Tech's War on Free Speech, he 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.

In CRUSHED, you'll learn about the following:

·       In Congress, Buck has advocated for free market principles. There may have been an event that convinced him that the monopoly laws should be applied to Big Tech.

·       Buck discusses the evolution of monopoly law in the U.S. and how it applied to the robber barons of the 20th century and how the Big Tech monopolies differ from the Rockefellers and Carnegies.

·       How Americans can protect themselves from Big Tech's infringement on their personal lives.

·       Examples of how these Big Tech monopolies have engaged in viewpoint discrimination.

·       What our founding fathers thought of monopolies in this country.

·       Buck makes a strong case that these Big Tech monopolies have corrupted the legislative process in Congress by their political contributions and hiring the children of legislative leaders. What is the solution?

·       How Google came to be a monopoly at every level.

·       What legal right Google, Facebook and Twitter had to take real steps to close down President Trump.

·       Whether Elon Musk is a savior for conservatives and if it's too early to tell yet.

·       Whether it was legal and/or constitutional for the FBI and Twitter to shut down and censor Americans.

·       Regarding the Big Tech cover-up and censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election - did Big Tech help Joe Biden defeat Trump by doing so?

·       Why the nation's anti-trust laws never seem to be enforced.

·       Knowing that Google and Big Tech gave overwhelming to Joe Biden and Democratic candidates, why are they so pro-Left?

·       Regarding Mark Zuckerberg, the controlling shareholder of Facebook, who gave over $400 million to Democrat non-profits during the 2020 election to collect ballots in only Democrat-run big cities. Were those campaign contribution?

·       Google has control of g-mail and several studies found that 90% of Donald Trump campaign e-mails and those of the RNC went into spam boxes of g-mail users, but 90% of Biden's went into the regular inbox. Isn't this a clear legal violation and bias of Google to help Democrat candidates?

·       Section 230 allows social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to be immune from lawsuits claiming they are neutral platforms. But these same platforms aren't neutral and have been censoring conservatives who questions the 2020 election, COVID matters and climate change, among other issues. Should the new GOP Congress repeal 230?

·       Amazon is the largest online retailer, but they are now competing against the very online vendors who sell things on their platforms. Isn't this bad for consumers?

·       Apple seems to be less controversial than other Big Tech companies, but there are still many concerns.

Ken Buck shows how these tech giants are true monopolies and their concentrated power coupled with their leftwing bias pose a serious danger for our democracy. In contrast to the robber barons of the Gilded Age who posed simply 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 by them. We can still take on Big Tech, fight back and even win. He says the future of our nation depends on it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Congressman Ken Buck is a Republican representing Colorado's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Buck is a member of the Freedom Caucus and Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, and he also serves on the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, and the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, The Pacific, and Nonproliferation. He was first elected to Congress in 2014 and is currently serving his fourth term.