I note that the tendency towards this behaviour scales with power.
The more power any institution has, public or private, the more it will attempt to shape its environment in its image - albeit as a subservient version. It’s their mutually beneficial alliance that enhances their respective power, and with that can only be enhanced a push towards political correctness.
It’s not enough to suppress the governmental part of this alliance, as private corporations will still remain obscenely powerful. Authoritarianism must be quashed on both sides, which can only be done from below by the people.
If government comes after you, as a megacorp you can swat it away. As a layman, you cannot swat away either government or go to another megacorp that refuses to serve you because “the market price”, dictated by the “accepted” level of profit that they demand to make, unites them in their refusal of your insufficient funds. If you are not judged by them as having acceptable potential to make them even more money, you will be denied a job - so as to be permitted to have an income at all, to give back to them in order to afford to live at all. By their grace, you may survive without turning to crime. If the government come after you, what’s the difference?
The Classical Liberal theory is that Capitalism has some degree of tendency towards the ideal of perfect competition, but this is only true in a poor society. With or without government alliance, in a rich society, the rich are able to pull away further and further, pooling resources to circulate mostly amongst themselves. Workers can forever be tossed minimal scraps, and only the minority with enough skill to enable capitalists to pull away even further are afforded a measured glimpse into their world. Most workers are expected to enable the owners to pull away in terms of wealth to justify any job at all. As conservatives will argue, the scraps are cheaper and of better quality as private owners compete with one another, and this is true. But this is small consolation as power is incrementally handed over to a minority who will eventually own your mind as technology is integrated into human life more and more. It’s bad enough that they hold our free time hostage to make them relatively even more better off than we are. But soon we will be directly plugged into the products they offer and subject to their wishes thinking they are our own, but at least we’ll have nice things? What kind of trade is that?
Yeah, I’ll give you that libertarians and any socially liberal types are anti-war. That encompasses at least some of the right I’m sure. I’m not aware of any leftists who support war - and members of the Democrat party don’t count. They’re authoritarian as soon as they gain their authority. It’s interesting that you distance yourself from neocons like I distance myself from the authoritarian left (who are usually anti-war despite their oppressive tactics) - I don’t consider you to be particularly right wing at all, but we agree on being against war and oligopoly.
I’m fine with tech, I just don’t want it owned by private business or government. It must be owned by the people: individuals. Political correctness or any agenda must stay out of it, whatever the source.