Socialise Big Tech
The ‘big five’ tech giants – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft – have extraordinary control over our lives. Regulating them isn’t enough, they have to be brought under democratic public ownership.
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Thomas M. Hanna is Research Director at the Democracy Collaborative and author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States.
The ‘big five’ tech giants – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft – have extraordinary control over our lives. Regulating them isn’t enough, they have to be brought under democratic public ownership.
Today’s announcement that Labour will back Universal Basic Services in the next election is a landmark in the fight to curb the influence of the market over our lives.