The "freedom of expression" touted by the tech moguls is a blatant fraud. Behind their hypocritical proclamations of free speech lies repression, censorship, and authoritarianism. A striking example is the case of Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, whose cartoon was censored for the first time since she began working at the newspaper in 2008. The cartoon depicted billionaires bowing down to Trump.
As Ann Telnaes herself noted in a post:
The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.