How The UK Is Letting Silicon Valley Take Over | Beeban Kidron interview
About this episode
Baroness Beeban Kidron discusses the influence of big tech on democracy and offers solutions for governments to combat this issue.
Baroness Beeban Kidron is a filmmaker and tech campaigner, and she joined Ava at Sunday Papers Live recently to speak about her book Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back. During the course of the conversation, Kidron breaks down the ways in which big tech have wormed their way into democracy to warp regulatory structures for their own benefit. She also explains how they've knowingly harmed the lives of their users, and offers solutions for governments to fight back. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Ava
Guest: Baroness Beeban Kidron
Topics covered
- big tech
- democracy
- regulation
- user harm
- government solutions
Keywords
- big tech
- democracy
- regulatory structures
- user harm
- government solutions
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Silicon Valley, Acast
Books & works: Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back
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