Big Tech versus Democracy | Green Left Show #3
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2021-02-07

This episode of the Green Left Show focuses on big tech, the government's proposed media Code, Google' threat to abandon Australia, the Greens' proposal for a publicly owned search engine and free speech online and on social media.

Guests are: Lizzie O'Shea (Lawyer and writer and chair of Digital Rights Watch); Aleks Wansbrough (author of "Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen, Myths and Allegories of the Digital Age") & Gauri Gandbhir (activist and writer with Green Left).

Read more about the media code: 
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/media-and-tech-giants-fight-over-our-democracy

This episode on Green Left online:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/video/green-left-show-big-tech-versus-democracy

Discussion points: 
Understanding the media code [2:00]; 
government funding for media [7:18]; 
Greens' proposal for publicly owned search engine [10:45]; 
arguments against publicly owned search [17:59]; 
breaking up big tech vs public ownership [29:35]; 
free speech and social media [34:40]; 
"free speech" and the far right [45:27]; 
on politicians [54:12].

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