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What does big tech really want?

The wealth of choices to learn and buy on the Internet are making us poorer and limiting our freedom, according the writer, Franklin Foer. His new book - World Without Mind, The Existential Threat of Big Tech - says digital corporations like Amazon, Facebook and Google need to be seen as overbearing monopolies in the same way movie studios and sugar companies were targeted by anti-trust laws in the 1930s. He spoke to Dan Damon about his theory.

(Photo: Logos of Facebook and Google. Credit: AFP)

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