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A warning shot to the world’s tech overlords
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A poster calls for a boycott of Elon Musk's social media platform X, in London.
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Robert Shrimsley
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It is easy to see why America’s tech titans evince an air of invulnerability. They have procured a president who appears ready to treat any limits on their freedoms as an attack on American interests.
Their monomania is often an engine of progress. Even when governments seek to act, lumbering legislators are no match for speedy technologists with wealth, media power, the advantages of extraterritoriality and a world view shaped by Ayn Rand; virtual private networks and Starlink
