The Sunday Debate: Break Up The Tech Giants
With so much data and power centralised in the hands of a few West Coast companies, the tech giants have become a serious threat to our basic freedoms and must be broken up. That\u2019s the argument that was made at this major Intelligence Squared debate by the FT\u2019s global business columnist Rana Foroohar and by businessman and former chairman of Channel 4 Luke Johnson.\n\n\nBut others would argue that it\u2019s all too easy to make the tech giants a scapegoat for the inevitable upheavals caused by the digital revolution. The real winners of this revolution are not the tech companies but us, the users. Who could now imagine living without the services of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? That\u2019s the case that was made in our debate by former head of Facebook\u2019s European politics and government division Elizabeth Linder and competition law expert Pinar Akman. Who's right and who's wrong?\xa0 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\n \n\xa0See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices