Review: The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

Marietje Schaake, the author of Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, is an authoritative figure in the world of Big Tech. As the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University and former Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019 (among other positions), her stance is simple and clearly expressed: the tech giants of Silicon Valley have become too big to fail and thus too big to regulate, with resulting harm to all of us. The ultimate result, she argues in this engaging and readable book, is the fundamental erosion of personal freedom and democratic norms.