The idea is that the large tech companies are overwhelmingly staffed and lead by people who qualify as the political left by American standards. As Breitbart said, "Politics is downstream from culture." - so if you have the most important communications platforms the world has ever seen all privately owned and operated by "the left", that sounds like a bad thing if you're on "the right", because they can shape discourse however they want - either overtly by banning people for bad politics or covertly by shadowbanning and otherwise muting popular voices with undesirable opinions. Imagine if Google/Facebook/Twitter were owned by the Koch brothers and staffed by members of the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation - people on the left would be doing the same thing Tucker Carlson is doing.

>The idea is that the large tech companies are overwhelmingly staffed and lead by people who qualify as the political left by American standards.

they're certainly left of fox news, though i wouldn't call fox news "leftist"

> That really surprises me given the free market arguments that he and others bring.

Tucker Carlson holding inconsistent positions shouldn't be the slightest bit surprising.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/11/not-the-capitalism-i-sign...

> “So that’s the crux of it right there,” said Tucker. “You are hearing Google, or you have for the past ten years, Google, Facebook and a number of other companies defended on pro-market grounds,” Tucker said before making the point that a “monopoly changes the calculation completely.”

they only believe in free market as far as it benefits their corporate sponsors and private interests. As soon as it helps people that are not them (or look like them) they change their tune instantly.

They are hypocrites.

I agree only as far as those entrenched in Washington DC.

But would argue 'grassroots' conservatism believes state favored corporations, regardless of ideology, are anti free market.