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The political class has reacted to the stratospheric rise of the tech behemoths with the gawping stupefaction of a five-year-old strapped into the nose cone of a space rocket. Politicians have gnashed their teeth about the tech giants’ reluctance to pay tax, but flailed about trying to find a remedy. Politicians have wailed about extremist, harmful and illegal content on the internet, but hesitated to legislate and lamely implored the platforms to implement their own technical solution. The tech barons have largely been left to set their own rules. They have been allowed a degree of self-policing which society would never tolerate for car makers or drugs manufacturers.
Andrew Rawnsley,‘Politicians can’t control the digital giants with rules drawn up for the analogue era’
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