I agree. It kind of feels like the media is pushing a "techlash" narrative where there is none.

Overly large companies wield disproportionately large amounts of influence in our lives and probably should be regulated more. But that disproportionate influence doesn't mean "tech" is the root cause.

There shouldn't be a backlash against tech companies specifically, but really companies that are overly large and use and abuse their power and position in ways that benefit shareholders in ways that are severely detrimental the common good. Such as limiting competition, influencing and manipulating legislation, ensuring people have no other options and then raising prices exponentially, selling your data to the highest bidder, etc.

Can you provide a pointer to such surveys? In my head the popularity of articles bashing tech companies is out of proportion to people's patronage of those same companies, but numbers would be nice.