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The BoF Podcast Episode 28: Are the Technology Giants Too Powerful?

Google, Facebook and Amazon’s monopoly of the internet is undermining cultural production, Jonathan Taplin argues in a live debate with Rohan Silva, co-founder of Second Home.
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The destructive monopolisation of the internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon is undermining cultural production, argued Jonathan Taplin on the #BoFVOICES stage in a debate with Rohan Silva, co-founder of Second Home. Read the full article and watch the video here.

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