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August 3, 2020: The Big Tech hearings - and Lisa Macpherson from Public Knowledge
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Tonight: The Big Tech hearings - and Lisa Macpherson from Public Knowledge
Pointers:
• This is perjury: the Big Tech hearings, summarized, my own take on the hearings
• Video of Big Tech hearings on toxic YouTube - a video showing the Google CEO lying, hosted by Google!
• Lies told by the Big Tech CEOs, on the Washington Post - an article about the owner of the Post lying, hosted by the Post!
• U.S. Code on Perjury
• Tech Companies Report Huge Profits as 40 Million Americans Face Evictions (Vice, July 31). See also Jeff Bezos's one-day gain of $7.6 billion (via Marketwatch).
• @lisahmacpherson - Lisa Macpherson on Twitter
• Public Knowledge
• The game is rigged: A former marketer shows you how Big Tech’s advertising practices harm us all (by Lisa Macpherson in the Seattle Times, July 10)
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Tomaš Dvořák |
Game Boy Tune
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Mark's intro | 0:02:23 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||||||||
Zuck lying to Congress | 0:12:03 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||||||||
Interview with Lisa Macpherson | 0:24:01 (MP3 | Pop‑up) | |||||||||
Marlon Craft |
The Internet Lied
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Listener comments!
So if Microsoft buy out US Tik Tok, is that much of an improvement?
Hi Mark.
(by the way) ho Mark and techtonats
Handy, lots of time in the sunshine, and even managed a barbecue. So all good. You left town, yes? How was it?
("we've sold more records than the beatles")
- less Accountability
- for anybody.
- rugged individualism for the poor.
- Martin King
- & how youth relate to new media in these terms.
There is something positive there.