The Tech Giants Are Committed to All These Sins and More

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Gogle has a higher market share of on line search in britain than virtually any other market, over 85%. The arrogance of the silican valley giants is breathtaking. It's time they learn that there are consequences for their deeply anti social behavior. Their rabotic business models rely on algarithms and have minimul human intervention. Great for their profit margins, but a disaster for quality of information and humanity's values.

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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