AOC: We Must Be Willing To Stand Up To Big Money And Big Tech
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to the need for Congress to take on Big Tech just like they had taken on Big Tobacco and Big Oil in the past:
But, you know, I think this is what is kind of being revealed here, and what all the points that we're making here is that this is about how Congress and Congress's willingness to take on big industries and some of the biggest and most nefarious industries that have preyed on the American people and everyday working families. They don't have big money lobbyists, but Big Social Media companies do. Big tech does. Big Pharma does. Big Oil does.
And Big Tobacco does, and Big Tobacco was one of the first mega-predatory industries that wrote the playbook on how to dupe Congress, and to also perpetuate PR campaigns to actually trick the American people as well. I mean, we all can remember times, and it's in our history books, that Big Tobacco had originally convinced the American people that smoking cigarettes was healthy for you. They suppressed science, they suppressed evidence, and then they lobbied Congress to prevent any sort of regulation, and millions of Americans were diagnosed with cancer and got sick, and we found out decades after the fact how dangerous this was.