When I was growing up, we where educated regularly on the horrifying atrocities committed by chaps like Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot. We where told how there was a strong desire after WW2 to keep power in check. To balance power so that no one state could become unstoppable. To try and prevent any one leader from becoming so powerful that they could no longer be challenged. Hitler was a famous fan of big tech, those IBM computers he used where massive.

The unchecked expansion of tech firms during the Obama years created the hypercentralised industry we call Big Tech. If a Stalin or a Hitler showed up today and seized all of this power, the civilian population would be powereless to defend themselves. No foreign power would be able to disrupt the holocaust this time. The mid 20th century doctrine of the balance of power aimed at preventing this by dispersing power, and ensuring that the big players are roughly balanced. But just like the MAD nuclear strategy, this had been abandoned, and the future is now a very uncertain place.