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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | is big tech coming for democracy in the new debugger podcast tech journalist Bob Sullivan |
0:17.8 | joins experts from Duke University and beyond for a special many series defending democracy |
0:23.9 | from big tech diving deep into big tech seemingly limitless power to influence our lives and |
0:30.2 | what we can do to rebalance the scales big tech makes huge decisions over our lives |
0:35.2 | every day what we see how we feel what we censor even what medical decisions we make but |
0:40.8 | who controls these massive firms who seem so powerful and rich they're able to act as |
0:45.4 | a judge and a jury accountable to no one what can we do to keep them in check and how important |
0:51.2 | is this issue James pretty big don't you think cool in a minute it everybody you know |
0:58.6 | it's it's fun it's one of these things we had to write in the left kind of merge and |
1:04.2 | and some of the opinions but when you know you have any time you have unbridled power |
1:11.1 | it leads to not good things without proper scoop of vision yeah so defending democracy |
1:19.4 | from big tech is a thought provoking limited series that we think you're going to love here's |
1:24.4 | a clip to give you a taste and you can listen to the whole series right now on the debugger |
1:29.4 | podcast |
1:38.2 | when we left off I'd just mentioned the burning kaya hogar river a big terrible mess and |
1:44.5 | Cleveland that eventually during the 1960s and early 70s help galvanize the attention |
1:50.7 | of most Americans and help to bring about the environmental protection agency well we |
1:56.8 | have another really big burning mess on our hands right now big tech this decision meant |
2:05.1 | that your company would now combine for example all of my data on Google my search history |
2:10.9 | my location from Google maps information from my emails from Gmail as well as my personal |
2:17.0 | identity with the record of almost all of the websites I visited that is absolutely staggering |
2:25.2 | Mr. Bezos did you personally sign off on the plan to raise prices after amazon limited |
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