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Amanpour: Eric Schmidt, Alan Eagle, Glenda Jackson & Phillip Youmans

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and current director Alan Eagle join Christiane Amanpour in London to discuss the future of big tech and how it should be regulated. Actor Glenda Jackson then talks about playing King Lear on Broadway. Finally, 19-year-old film director Phillip Youmans discusses his recent success at Tribeca Film Festival with our Alicia Menendez.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey podcast listeners, Kristianne here and thanks so much for tuning him. I really hope you enjoy the show.

0:05.6

Get in touch on Twitter and Instagram and tell me what you think because tonight we talk to Eric Schmidt about possibly breaking up the big tech giants. We talk to the great

0:14.5

Glender Jackson about her gender-bending role as King Lear and we talk to

0:19.3

Philip Eumens who is making history at the Tribeca Film Festival. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. So has big tech finally just gotten too big and too powerful?

0:45.0

As Silicon Valley dives ever deeper and deeper into our lives, there are rising calls for oversight.

0:51.0

When it comes to regulation, though though Europe is leading the United States

0:54.8

and the summit in Paris this week with tech and world leaders is trying to get to

0:59.6

grips with the idea of all powerful monopolies, invasion of privacy and democracy,

1:05.0

the spread of extremism and violence.

1:07.5

The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arderne

1:10.0

is coming to co-chair the meeting

1:11.8

and to rally support for the Christchurch call.

1:15.0

That's a pledge name for the massacres there when a white nationalist mowed down 50 Muslim

1:20.5

worshippers as two mosques and live streamed it on Facebook and

1:24.4

tomorrow I'll sit down with the Prime Minister in Paris to hear about her hopes to

1:28.8

eliminate extremism online. Arden's host and co-chair will of course be the French President Emmanuel Macron, and he has just met with Mark Zuckerberg,

1:38.3

as the Facebook founder continues his worldwide efforts at damage control. While rejecting one of his own co-founder's

1:45.3

calls for Facebook to finally be broken up. Now unsurprisingly tech leaders claim

1:50.5

they are best place to self-regulate and they reject government

1:54.4

intervention. I ask the former CEO and chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, and

1:59.1

Alan Eagle, who's a company director, what it would take to separate the wheat from the chaff

2:04.4

when it comes to online content. They join me to discuss their new book,

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