Fighting Back Against Big Tech, with Rana Foroohar and Ros Urwin

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode we were joined by Rana Foroohar, FT global business columnist and author of Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech, alongside Ros Urwin of the Sunday Times. According to Foroohar, Silicon Valley has lost its soul, and the tech behemoths like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon are monetising both our data and our attention without us seeing a penny of those exorbitant profits. These companies have become rapacious monopolies with the power to corrupt our elections, co-opt all our data, and control the largest single chunk of corporate wealth — while evading all semblance of regulation and taxes. And in Foroohar's view, they must be held to account. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello, I'm Daniel and welcome to this Intelligence Squared podcast.
1:03.0	In this podcast we were joined by Rana Faruha, who's an award-winning Financial Times Global Business columnist,
1:09.0	and she is the author of Don't Be Evil, The Case Against Big Tech, which as you can tell is an expose of the evils
1:16.7	of big tech companies like Google and Facebook and the threat that big tech poses to our democracies, to our economies and to ourselves.
1:24.6	Rana Ferruh Hart was interviewed by Ros Irwin, who's a journalist at the Sunday Times,
1:29.3	and we hope you enjoy listening to this episode.
1:31.3	Hello, I'm Ros Irwin. Welcome to this episode. Hello, I'm Ros Erwin.
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