How Much Do You Intervene?

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Many of these te giants did not see the connection between their algarithm selling adverts and some of the vile vilies which were being posted. The fact is it took the public and also the advertisers, to say, we want nothing to do with that. And from what you can read in the press, in reaction, for example, recent times investigation, they have taken action pretty much immediately. I mean, bt they should have seen it coming. It's well, theso internete has billions and billions of sides. And i don't know how much content there is on the internete. But if they still fail to do, of course, they should take action

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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