Big Tech's big legal headache
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The US Supreme Court is hearing claims that big tech firms such as Google and Twitter should be considered the publishers of the harmful content that appears on their platforms. Dr. Mary Anne Franks, president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, tells us how it could change the way the internet works everywhere in the world.
A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine we speak to one of the country's thousands of tech workers about how she has adapted to living and working in a time of war - and the government tells us the tech sector has kept growing, despite the destruction and loss of life.
We find out about how some internet users in South Africa have had to become night owls because of the soaring cost of mobile data. And how users can ride a virtual reality jet-ski - just by thinking about it.
(Photo: Attorney Eric Schnapper speaks to the press outside the US Supreme Court following oral arguments in Gonzalez v Google, a landmark case about whether technology companies should be liable for harmful content their algorithms promote, 21 February, 2023. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.6 | Big drama on this week's TechTent with me, Zoe Kleinman, |
| 0:34.7 | is the internet, as we know it, about to be reshaped. |
| 0:38.0 | A lot is riding on the outcome of two Supreme Court cases in the US. |
| 0:42.0 | We'll find out more about them and why this could be a big fork in the digital road. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll also speak to the Ukrainian government about how its huge tech sector has coped with |
| 0:51.6 | and adapted to a year of war. |
| 0:56.6 | And I have a go at controlling virtual reality using only my mind and hear how neuro technology aims to change our lives in the future. |
| 1:02.2 | At Kodrat, we are essentially trying to allow people to connect their minds to computers. And we |
| 1:09.7 | really want to take the next step in this technology |
| 1:12.9 | and bring it to the public in a way that people haven't seen before. |
| 1:21.4 | We all know that some of the most harmful and hateful content imaginable circulates on |
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