We just saw the awesome power of Big Tech go from "theoretical" to "wow, they actually did it".
The reasons are not as important as the fact that it happened.
Power doesn't truly exist until it's exercised, because you don't really know how things will play out. Now we do know how it plays out: exactly like we feared.
An unsypathetic "victim" to experiment on with their overwhelming strength. Now it's just a matter of who is next and when. It's OK, that victim might be evil also.
The reasons are not as important as the fact that it happened.
Power doesn't truly exist until it's exercised, because you don't really know how things will play out. Now we do know how it plays out: exactly like we feared.
An unsypathetic "victim" to experiment on with their overwhelming strength. Now it's just a matter of who is next and when. It's OK, that victim might be evil also.