The right-wing alternative to Big Tech is seizing local institutions and platforms

Evidence

The plan is to push “Five Freedoms” and “no mask” laws wherever you live. The plan is to barge into your local school board meeting, accuse its members of being Nazis, and get elected to take their place. The plan is to stick it to Big Tech by subscribing to new right-wing platforms and “stay ahead of the censors,” as Bannon’s tagline declares. The plan is to get you to send them money, to join their wars. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 287

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: the asymmetry of local institutional capture — the right has a playbook for school boards while progressives argue about the abstraction of platform governance.