Are They Doing Enough?

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We think that a new autonomous and deliberative, multe stecoter body or ency should be setting the principles and standards about what data can be collected and determining its use. And the same could also be said for speech as well. The goal would just be to ensure that all stakeholders, you know, workers, residence, community organizations, businesses so on, can really collectively shape the rules and regulations around data and speech. When data is collected, when you do create it into existence, we belie that it should be held in a new network of public data trusts That will enable residence in communities to access that data and have control over their lives. We propose a series of new public

Paris Marx is joined by Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna to discuss the problems with platforms, why antitrust alone is not enough to fix them, and how we can encourage the creation of democratic platforms that serve the public good.

Mathew Lawrence is the founder and director of Common Wealth. He’s also the co-author of “Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown.” Preorder it now from Verso Books and follow him on Twitter as @DantonsHead.

Thomas Hanna is the research director at The Next System Project. He’s the author of “Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States.” Follow him on Twitter as @ThomasMHanna.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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