For today’s big tech, the stakes are higher, because their power and potential for exploitation delves deeper into our lives and society. In the ’90s, Bill Gates could keep a rival spreadsheet program from gaining traction. Today, Mark Zuckerberg can affect the outcome of a presidential election. Facebook is not merely plundering the technology budgets of America’s corporations, as Microsoft did, but our private lives and emotional wellbeing, and the health of our democracy.
