The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke.
Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power.
Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations—controlled by the robber barons of the modern era—are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades.
To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and curbing the influence of corporate and political elites.
Big Tech and its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the business and legal landscape of the digital world.

CONTENTS
Title Page
Dedication
Preface
Part I
    Chapter 1: The Return of the Monopolies
    Chapter 2: The Robber Barons
    Chapter 3: The Last Republican
    Chapter 4: The Triumph of Corporate Liberalism
Part II
    Chapter 5: Addicting America
    Chapter 6: Anti-Social Media
    Chapter 7: The Censors
    Chapter 8: New World Order
    Chapter 9: Rigging Washington
Part III
    Chapter 10: What Each of Us Can Do
    Chapter 11: A New Politics
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes

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