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The context is so clearly big tech and monopolies that I feel silly even pointing it out. It's relevant in the context of the quoted tweet, it's obvious considering what proton is and does, it's consistent with opinions previously expressed by the same guy on antitrust. The little guy here is opposed to "big businesses".
Like no, this conversation is absolutely scoped to big tech/monopolies/antitrust.
Why say "big business" and not "big tech" then if it's just tech?
Because it's so obvious given the rest of the context? I don't know, but unless you want to intentionally misunderstand to critique him on things he quite clearly didn't mean, it makes no sense to assume that:
Is talking about big and small business in general in the US economy. Honestly, to me is obvious, maybe the above is not enough for you, in that case I will leave you to your opinion.
Edit: See https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i29k9t/proton_shouldnt_use_their_official_socials_to/m7cqw5j/ where he mentions:
Yes, in the context and ignoring everything else, sure, I agree. But to me, it makes no sense how someone could believe that republicans are somehow pro big business but anti big tech. Talking about these things as if they're unrelated doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm just missing something, I guess.