The backlash is taking three forms: cognitive, political, and economic.

Let's take that last piece first and look at the growing economic power of these firms.

If you look at the top 10 firms by market cap in the US, you can see that the top five of them are the big Silicon Valley tech platform firms.

These firms are generating more wealth than any other companies before in history.

And a lot of it, of course, is being stored abroad in overseas tax havens.

There's been a lot of talk in the last couple of years about these overseas cash hordes.

In fact, the Trump administration recently changed the tax code, hoping to get some of that money back into the US.

But interestingly most of those assets, as you see here, are actually being held in bonds, many of them corporate bonds, rather than cash.

So why is this?

Well, the largest tech firms can use their own high credit ratings to issue debt at very low interest rates.

They then use that to purchase the bonds of other companies and hold those as safe assets in overseas havens.

Now what happens if they're going to bring this cash home?

Well that's going to mean the selling of these corporate bonds, which could have a big impact on interest rates.

All of this, as well as growing concerns about monopoly power, anti-trust issues, has led Americans to believe that the internet giants should be more regulated.

And if you look here, you can see that over half of Americans do indeed believe that we need to go further with regulation of the tech giants.

So watch this space.