“This is the first time in American history that regular people have held leverage over Silicon Valley. … Not once have they been afforded the opportunity to tell Silicon Valley no. That is until now. Because now, big tech's mission happens to converge with an unusually stringent legal procedure known as land use regulation. And the reality is, if they want to do what they want to do, they now have to ask Americans for permission.”

…level of societal control. And most importantly, they have also been powerless to big tech's abuse of that power. Despite the many harms that big tech has been responsible for, no one in America has ever been able to do anything about it. They bought our politics, they bribed our leaders, they skirted around the law. And not once have the American people been given a say in all of this. Not once have they been afforded the opportunity to tell Silicon Valley no. That is until now. Because now, big tech's mission happens to converge with an unusually stringent legal procedure known as land use regulation. And the reality is, if they want to do what they want to do, they now have to ask Americans for permission. And last week, the American people's answer was plain and simple. The answer was no. This is a dramatic shift in societal power. This is a dynamic that Silicon Valley has actually never experienced before. They got too comfortable in the wild west of digital services where regulation was scant and where permission didn't really exist. But now they're operating in the physical world where laws…