Is There a Monopoly?

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The jury is still out as to whether google has even properly remedied, remedied that issue. I suspect very highly that they're going to be found by the commissioner to still be in violation of those competitive issues. When you use these supposedly free services, free isn't free? You pay with your data. Don't kig yoursel oro is not free. And they sell it to third party advertisers that you have no idea who they are. Right? The e u finds that we were just talking about. We got lower prices on flat screen t vs. allot of things,. We've also lost tons and tons of jobs. There is a trade off here.

With so much data and power centralised in the hands of a few West Coast companies, the tech giants have become a serious threat to our basic freedoms and must be broken up. That’s the argument that was made at this major Intelligence Squared debate by the FT’s global business columnist Rana Foroohar and by businessman and former chairman of Channel 4 Luke Johnson. But others would argue that it’s all too easy to make the tech giants a scapegoat for the inevitable upheavals caused by the digital revolution. The real winners of this revolution are not the tech companies but us, the users. Who could now imagine living without the services of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? That’s the case that was made in our debate by former head of Facebook’s European politics and government division Elizabeth Linder and competition law expert Pinar Akman. Who's right and who's wrong?

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