91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Show #3: Big Tech versus democracy

February 7, 2021
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This episode of the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Show focuses on big tech, the government's proposed media code, Google's threat to abandon Australia, the Greens' proposal for a publicly-owned search engine and the debate around online free speech.

Guests are: Lizzie O'Shea (lawyer, writer and chair of ); Aleks Wansbrough (author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen, Myths and Allegories of the Digital Age) and Gauri Gandbhir (activist and writer with 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳).

Read more about the proposed media code.

Discussion points: [2:00]; [7:18]; [10:45]; [17:59]; [29:35]; [34:40]; [45:27]; [54:12].

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