Powerful speech by @tom_watson on the tech giants and their duty of care to users of social media. 1/3rd of social media users are children. He talks of the tragic story of Molly Russell “the consequence of industry that chooses to profit from children rather than protect them”
Just as importantly @tom_watson talks about ways of tacking the global monopolies of the digital giants, and even suggesting they should be broken up if ‘in the public interest’
Watson talks of creating a digital public sphere - British Digital Corporation - free from capitalist surveillance and supporting, with charitable status, the journalism devastated by the loss of advertising in traditional publishing
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