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Jamie Susskind

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1. “Absolutely. So the book is about a solution. It's about this thing called digital republicanism, which is a philosophy. And then I propose lots of policies and laws that might flow from it. But it begins by asking what the ideology is that's governed the tech industry until now. And I call that market individualism. And essentially the way that we generate technology and the way that we regulate technology has been governed by this ideology and often it's implicit.”

   2022-07-21 · Intelligence Squared · Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Focus on the character of people like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. Remember, it's not about whether the king is a good or a bad king. It's the idea of kingship at all. What I object to is the idea that someone like Elon Musk could have a profound effect on the democratic process simply by virtue of the fact that he has lots of money and can buy Twitter. It's about objecting to unaccountable power wherever it may be found. And those two words, unaccountable power are the center of my diagnosis, as it were, of what's gone wrong in the tech industry.”

   2022-07-21 · Intelligence Squared · Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Which has appeared in wars and revolutions and constitutions throughout history, it applies it to the modern context. And it says that Essentially, we are unfree so long as we are in the thrall of those who own, design, and control powerful digital technologies, and we need to be able to hold them to account. And so I attack is too harsh. I criticize the tendency in a lot of tech discourse to kind of”

   2022-07-21 · Intelligence Squared · Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT