Big Tech

The collective term for the largest and most influential technology companies (such as Google/Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and similar firms), whose scale gives them outsized economic, political, and cultural power over digital infrastructure, markets, platforms, and labor.

Claims that use this term

• Big 5 media firms have made more acquisitions than Big Tech, nearly fifteen hundred
• The right-wing alternative to Big Tech is seizing local institutions and platforms
• Big Tech seized publicly funded technologies while claiming the language of the commons
• Big Tech turned workers into cloud proles and everyone else into cloud serfs.
• Big Tech valuations fell $4 trillion yet stayed above pre-pandemic levels