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- Like most of us,

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I've got a deep unease about
the power of tech companies.

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(mellow music)

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Not because they're inherently bad,

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but just because they're powerful.

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And unlike governments, you
can't vote out a tech company.

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You could sort of say
you could vote them out

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by electing to not buy their product,

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or use their system, or whatever it is,

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but it's not a vote any
of us ever really make.

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- [Woman] The problem with the people

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that run tech companies

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is that they become fanatics,

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end up thinking they're messiahs.

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- Any reasonable-minded person knows

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there are problems with tech companies.

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It might be to do with the
way they do or don't pay tax.

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It might be to do with the
way they exercise their power.

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It might be to do with
the kind of information

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they acquire about us and the
way they use that information.

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But we're broadly passive
in the face our discomfort.

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- [Man] No one knows
what the Devs teams does

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except the Devs team.

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- [Man] I wouldn't even say the Devs team

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knows what the Devs team does.