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>> welcome to bloomberg technology. i'm emily chang in san francisco. stocks higher despite concerns about fresh outbreaks of covid-19 across the country. byntime, a landmark ruling the supreme court blocking the trump administration's attempt program for a young immigrants in the united states. we will get to that along with facebook taking down a trunk campaign reelection ad that contained a nazi symbol.
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campaign reelection ad that contained a nazi symbol. it has been a day of low-volume and not a lot of conviction. what are investors waiting for? fast -- a snooze snooze-fest, not a lot of volatility. what are investors waiting for? stocksthree of days, now are stuck. we are seeing a little bit of a haven bid for bonds and the yen. it might suggest a risk-off tone. waitinginvestors are for a little more information around the virus and if we are going to see new epicenters that could rival what we had a going on in new york a couple months ago, sadly. but now we have moved past it. but could that be some sort of a slowing on the economy? another look at the
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possibility of a real risk-off tone, the dollar. it is up for a third day and it is a haven asset. over the last 10 days, a solid bid from a technical standpoint. the uber dollar index back above the 10 day moving average. -- the bloomberg dollar index back above the 10 day moving average. in the past, that has pressured stocks. it could set a bit of a risk-off tone. i think it would be around virus concerns if i had to take a guess. emily: a small move for facebook .s well facebook took down a trump campaign reelection ad that contained a nazi-leaning symbol. facebook has been in the spotlight about how they handle these issues and there are calls .o pull money from facebook is this affecting the stock at all? headline, but not
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much on the stock. facebook did have a volatile day on a relative basis, down more than 1% in the morning. at the end of the day, not a lot of movement. at the year, one point for stock was down sharply and is now up about 15%. this has to do with the march quarter that they reported. not as bad as expected. there were fears that there could be a situation for social media companies. it was made up for by e-commerce. looking ahead, it seems that we had an interesting conversation. he was telling me that this was the social media company that will outperform the most from a growth perspective. they may see a shift in their business model, moving away from dependency on advertising for e-commerce and payments. they have a huge platform to potentially make that happen.
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in the near term, it could be rocky. over the long-term, it seems like they have a pretty bright future. regulation, emily, is one of the big risks. it will be interesting what jeff bezos and mark zuckerberg will say in july. that could move stock in the next month or so. emily: testify if he is called. that is something that we will follow. we do not yet know if he will be called. that is the outstanding question. thank you for joining us. in other big news, a divided supreme court has ruled that president trump cannot and the obama era program that shields hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from you port -- deportation. they argue that the deferred action for childhood arrival program is illegal. daca protects people brought
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into this country. the president tweeting that this is a horrible and politically charged decision. attorney general, thank you for joining us. important to have your voice today of all days. a really momentous decision which chief justice roberts siding with the liberal ring -- wing of the court. what is your reaction to this? >> the second time in a week. the supreme court is showing its independence and that it will stand up for the rule of law and fairness. it is conducive to the most just result, to make sure all of these young people have a chance to continue in this country and contribute as they have. emily: that said, the president is saying this is a political decision and not a legal decision. what are your thoughts on that? >> i think he's wrong about that.
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dead wrong. the decision is similar to the court's decision on the citizenship question. the trump administration and its policy about immigration generally is basically cruel and pointless. they failed to offer any reason why it makes any sense at all to deport something more than 800,000 people who are studying here, working here, raising families here, contributing to our economy. it makes no sense at all and they did not give a good reason. because they failed to give a good reason, there was nothing to support their move to cancel this policy. so the justice sent it back to the lower court and said, not good enough. you can't give a good reason and we can't support this policy. emily: apple ceo tim cook came out in support of dhaka -- daca in the past. in support of these so-called dreamers. what is the interest for the
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community when we are in the middle of a health crisis, economic crisis, and millions of people out of work. means that people can breathe a little bit easier. you never know with respect to this administration because they have declared war on america's immigrants. it's clear that not just apple, but many companies and employers large and small can depend on these workers. that they will be here for a while longer. we need to make these protections permanent which is why i am using guarded language here. we have to make sure that these protections become permanent. but our economy can depend on these people. that is really important at a time when, economically, we have serious headwind. businesses large and small have serious challenges knowing that this part -- challenges. and knowing this part of the
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workforce will be there is huge. could president trump bring this argument again, though they have been told it needs to be better. to, there is a social crisis that we are facing in this country. the deaths of george floyd and rayshard brooks. does this have you considering or reflecting on how you would enforce the law in your state without resorting to violence? think this is about fairness and about humans beings. people contributing to our society and our economy, dreamers are really important part of our social fabric. cater toer them and to the president's hateful and bigoted base really hurts this country in the same way that
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failing to address systemic and institutional racism and the death of george floyd and the tremendous pain-and-suffering we are feeling across the country does great damage to this country. i think these issues are linked. at the end of the day, what is needed is leadership from the president and from washington that brings us together to confront these major social, political, and economic issues. he is failing to do that and i hope you can do better in the months and years to come. see a need for police reform in connecticut and beyond? >> i see it everywhere. the pain-and-suffering that george floyd's family is feeling and experiencing in their community and minnesota is felt across the country. of law had instances
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enforcement misconduct and brutality in connecticut. we are trying to confront these issues and we have to do it quickly and comprehensively. no state is immune from these challenges. we know now that the doj and the house are considering antitrust probes into big tech, which is something that we cover on this show. like apple, alphabet, facebook, amazon. i'm curious where your office stands on big tech and if you have taken the position on if big tech needs to be broken up and if this is something that you are exploring. >> attorneys general across the country have been leading on antitrust enforcement and investigations. we have a 50 state investigation
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pending against google and looking into if google has unlawfully used its market power , particularly in the digital advertising space. respectbeen active with to facebook as well. in the past, they have been multistate investigations. connecticut in particular, we are a big player in the privacy space. we were a leader in the equifax data breach and reaching that historic largest ever settlement for a data breach and privacy breach. and i am leaving the national generic drug price-fixing case. we just announced our third huge confront rampant and brazen price-fixing, the largest corporate cartel in history. given that the google
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investigation is more advanced, when you look at some of these other tech companies, especially given your work on pharmaceutical companies as well, what do you think a problem -- the problem is with facebook, amazon, and apple? companies butrent they dominate the markets they are in. do they dominate to the extent that they are monopolies? >> right. the question is whether they are thatolies, if they use market dominance to prejudice their competitors and customers and consumers. we have very real concern that that is happening. that is why we are investigating the major technology companies. the watershed moment in the last 30 years was the antitrust case
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against microsoft, many years ago. now almost a generation ago. if we had not taken action, there probably wouldn't be a google or facebook. we had to make sure that microsoft was honoring obligations under the law and not misusing or abusing market innovation andh competition. companies that were the start a generation ago are now the big monolith and we have to take a look at them as well. emily: interesting. we will be following what action your office takes. william tong, thank you so much for joining us. coming up, the global race to 5g continues and legato is one of the companies promising to bring
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the latest and greatest technology to the industrial sector. we will talk to the companies ceo next -- company's ceo next. this is bloomberg. ♪
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emily: in april, the fcc unanimously approved legato's request to use it spectrum to build industrial 5g networks for critical infrastructure companies across the united states. transportation companies, public safety companies, and energy companies. this decision puts the u.s. a step closer to china in the race for 5g. however, on tuesday, the commerce and transportation departments told lawmakers that they oppose legato's proposed service. the pentagon does as well. joining us is the ceo of legato,
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doug smith. you have the commerce department, transportation department and even the pentagon saying that this would disrupt gps signals needed for defense, aviation safety, airlines also concerned about this. why are all of them, these executive agencies, wrong? emily, thanks for having me. i am happy to be able to talk about this. have therilled that we approval that you mentioned. in april, the sec approved our petition for a license. it was approval that came with unanimous support from the commissioners. it was a five-zero vote and had bipartisan support. for our country towards 5g. i certainly understand that some folks are still resistant to the idea. but i think the record the sec has speaks for itself which is
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that this was a database decision. so give me the database and technological argument. why do you believe this won't interfere with gps and compromise defense and airline safety? is safebelieve it because i have spent years looking at this. i am in engineer of 30 years. i am also a pilot. this has been an application pending for well over four years. we have analyzed, tested. we've done more testing on this spectrum then i have ever seen and all data comes back to support the decision the fcc made. protect gps,t we we made a lot of decisions and changes.
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to do withthat have interference, we have addressed them. worked with federal agencies to understand their concerns. package that we came up with addresses the interference. emily: i know that those -- there are safeguards to put in place in case it causes interference. and though safeguards are turning it off. isn't that a problem in itself? doug: the take away from that is that is the confidence i have won't be an issue. there is a cause -- a clause that the fcc has all the actions it needs to address it, including as having turn off our network.
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i am so confident that we will not cause interference that we have agreed to that provision. when do you intend to begin service? now: we are focused right on developing the 5g technology. we have been a satellite provider for critical communications for over 25 years. right now, we are really focused on building 5g services on our satellite and ground-based networks. the approval here allows us to build them on a ground-based network. so we have technology development and making sure that we have devices that will bringt 5g and we can these fantastic services to market. howy: we will be watching this debate continues to develop. thank you for joining us. coming, tesla's board members
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are under fire for wasting corporate resources in exchange for massive pay awards. that story, next. this is bloomberg. ♪
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fund haspension launched a lawsuit against tesla directors including ceo elon musk and oracle founder larry ellison claiming that they improperly siphoned millions of dollars out of the country's asset -- company's assets. our reporterng in that covers tesla. what is the allegation and how important is this? >> there are a lot of lawsuits involving tesla, of course. larges one by a fairly pension fund. this is coming at a time when governance is top of mind.
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this is a pension fund representing detroit police and firefighters. the basically said that board is using their position to enrich themselves at the company's expense. they have granted themselves millions in compensation, and some of them don't even go to all the meetings. even the proxy advisory firms have come out as of late. there is always drama at tesla. corporate governance is an issue. it rears its head right around the time of the general meeting and we see this come yet again. or the boardesla members made a statement in response? dana: no. [laughter] this is a lawsuit that was filed yesterday. haven't seen any kind of statement or response from tesla today at all.
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do you expect this could impact the board longer-term? could it lead to another board shakeup? there have been several over the years at tesla. it is a tricky thing. on one hand, there are investors and pension funds that have been pushing for changes to corporate governance for quite some time. we saw that in the wake of the "go private" tweet. tesla has taken steps to add more independent directors. the stock is doing incredibly well and closed about $1000 yet again. the average shareholder is looking at the stock price and is very happy. it is hard for me to imagine that all of a sudden, you will have a revolt of shareholders demanding that larry ellison or robin home resigned from the board after they have done extraordinarily well in 2020. tesla has always been --
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you have these fervent bulls and bears. be not sure anybody would swayed in terms of investors by these corporate governance issues. dana: i don't think so. i think the bottom line is that the shareholders that care the most about corporate governance tend to be fairly small shareholders. the large shareholders have known about tesla's corporate governance issues for years and tend to be long-term investors that have always stood by the company. you have not seen a critical mass of large holders get up in arms about this. hull, bloomberg's dana thank you for bringing us that update. up -- websiteing security provider cloud where has seen a surge in cyberattacks on antiracist organizations since the death of george floyd.
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matthew prince will join us next. this is bloomberg. ♪ [ sigh ] not gonna happen.
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ask about saving up to $1500 on your installation. emily: welcome back to "bloomberg technology." as the 2020 election cycle heats up, network security firm client cloudflare says it is blocking thousands of attacks on political campaigns per day and 4 million such attacks on a busy day. theing us to discuss is cofounder and ceo. matthew, good to have you back. first of all, shares up 100% since march. flare is part of our critical infrastructure as we
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all shelter-in-place. talk to us about what traffic and demand has been like in the pandemic. thehew: obviously superheroes of this crisis are going to be the medical professionals and scientists that are taking care of the sick and helping look for a cure, but we are proud that we are one of the guardians of the internet, and we have been one of the faithful guardians that have allowed us to get through this. we have seen, around the world, as much as a 50% increase in overall internet utilization. our team is hard at work making sure that we are able to keep normal traffic under control, but we have also seen a dramatic spike in cyberattacks. we want to make sure all our customers and clients stay online, no matter what. emily: do you think this boost is temporary because we are sheltering in place? what happens in the new normal
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when people start to go back to work and school, howbeit slowly? -- albeit slowly? matthew: i think the first systemic change is going to be that, now that the world has learned more how to work remotely, then i think that is something employees are going to demand across companies, and it is going to accelerate a lot of digital transformation. think folks were laying on the internet to get work done across the globe is something -- relying on the internet to get work done across the globe is something that will stay. we have seen a plateauing in overall internet usage. i think cyberattacks are one of two different trends, one less concerning than the other. we always see an uptick in cyberattacks as school lets out. kidsw what were largely
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launching relatively unsophisticated attacks. but over the last month, we have seen an increase in much more sophisticated attacks that appear to be coming from nation state actors, sometimes targeting health infrastructure, sometimes targeting election infrastructure, and that has us more concerned. unfortunately, i think those sorts of actors are taking advantage of any crisis that they can see, and that is why having a system like cloud file in place is soe important. , mark earlier this week zuckerberg announced a voter information campaign that they are launching to register new voters, as well as the latest efforts that they have been making to safeguard the integrity of the platform and protect it from interference in the election. all that said, how concerned are you about interference in the 2020 presidential election, just based on the number of attacks that you are seeing on a regular
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basis? matthew: lee, i think we risk turning u.s. elections -- unfortunately, i think we risk turning u.s. elections into the world cup of cyberattacks, after the rest of the world saw how vulnerable parts of our election infrastructure were in 2016. that is something we are very much in touch with, and we have been working since 2016 with what we call the opinion project to help any state, local, or federal officials conducting .lections one of the things i am proud of is that we worked with the federal election commission in order to not just protect the election infrastructure, but to actually be able to protect any campaign as well. we provide all these services at no cost. there is no way we could have built plan flare without a stable and functioning political
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system. cloudflare without a stable and functioning political system. we want to make sure we can protect that political system and make sure it continues to work going forward. meantime, you have also seen a large uptick in cyberattacks, particularly on organizations focused on antiracism. what are you seeing in terms of the traffic and the severity of these attacks, and what are you doing to help mitigate it? matthew: unfortunately, the internet used to be a place anyone could use the platform to get out important messages, and advocacy organizations really flourished in the time of the internet. what has unfortunately happened is, as there are people wanting to silence those organizations, they are using things like cyberattacks to knock them off line.
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disturbingly, as we all saw, incredibly horrific images of violence against black communities on television online, we were seeing massive attacks against various organizations that were fighting for human rights. we saw over a 1000-times ofrease in the number cyberattacks those organizations were facing. for six years, we have provided project galileo, which provides services for free to clinically or artistically important organizations. been onboarding several of these human rights organizations over the last several weeks and stand ready to throw our full wei tan services to make sure they can stay online and get -- our full weight and services to make sure they can stay online. meanwhile, cloudflare has
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faced controversies of its own. you have been criticized for servicing hateful organizations which, believe it or not, they have websites of their own. i know this is something that you have personally struggled with in wanting to be a neutral provider of services for people who use the internet. i am curious if any of the recent events have change how you are thinking about this, and your reflections on what your business practices should be going forward. i think that we have a duty to make sure we protect the people who are fighting for civil liberties and civil rights online. we have been very careful, as we do that, to recognize that we are computer scientists, not .olitical scientists we work with multiple organizations to identify who the good guys are, because we do
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not trust ourselves to be the ones to say this content is politically or artistically important. while there are plenty of things that they use our services, we see now nearly 13% of all the network,ng through our so there are amazing things that use us, but there are also things that i would rather not i think it is very dangerous -- use us. i think it is very dangerous for infrastructure companies behind the scenes to make parts of the internet disappear. before cyberattacks took off like they did, the internet was a place where anyone could put in i tf online, and that was how itfinternet worked -- an online, and that is how the internet worked. by pulling away cloudflare, what
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you are effectively saying is that bullies and criminals who launch attacks should be able to silence one side of the debate or another, and that is something we think is not the right place for us to be making determinations. emily: all right, cloudflare cofounder and ceo matthew prince. thank you so much for joining us. coming up, some lawmakers and the department of justice proposing to rollback legal protections for internet platforms and how they moderate their content. this as companies like facebook, togle, and twitter rush monitor misinformation and disinformation on their sites. ♪
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emily: the justice department is outlining a broad overhaul of legal protections for internet platforms like google and facebook, if they deliver blue -- if they deliberately promote illegal speech on their website. senator marsha blackburn one of lawmakers calling for rolling back these protections. she spoke with bloombergs kevin cirilli in washington. it is time that, for congress to do something about privacy, data mining, --we have been talking about this for years, and it is congress's responsibility for putting the rules in place. here is the problem. you have big tech companies hiding behind a shield that was put in place when they were
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little bitty, just starting out. and they had users that were reposting content. now, one of -- what have these big tech, social media companies done? they have developed new things, but do they want to play by the rules? no. but they turn around and make a decision that "the federalist," which is conservative content which they don't like -- it doesn't fit their political theosophy -- so they go to comments section for third-party postings on that, and then they say, we are going to disallow this and not have that engagement. here is the problem. what has social media told us since its infancy? they said, we are the public square. we have been saying to them, well, the public display or has
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a cuff on the beat to keep -- has a cop on the beat to keep order. you look at youtube, they let that run wild. you look at things like "the federalist," and they want to go in and take down third-party comments, that participation in public discourse. >> let me ask you about this, because so many lawmakers on the left and right have raised concerns about breaking up a big tech. but what are you saying realistically should be done? sen. blackburn: right, when i have talked to president trump, i have said let's not do away with section 230, let's reform section 230. if you have 50 million users or less, you have section 230 protections. if you have more than that, you are not going to have section have section
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230 protections. also, let's look at these -- we talk about abusive or unlawful. let's look at what these terms intond put more definition what this is supposed to mean. overly broad terms end up being ripe for abuse. let's put that definition in. kevin: who should take the lead on this? sen. blackburn: it should be judiciary and commerce. they are going to have different components of this bill. but it will be chairman graham, chairman wicker working with those of us in the tech task force and addressing it. we are ready to move forward on this. the browser act is there to address privacy, giving you the ability to opt in to shield your personal information to determine what you want the
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platform to have access to, giving you that first right on opting in or opting out. that ought not to be the prerogative of the platform. kevin: i want to get geopolitical for a second, because we can talk but the politics and which sites are conservative or liberal, but china has been making a play for these big tech companies, and they have been less reaction even lawmakers in both parties would like. -- reactionary than lawmakers in both parties would like. how do you see china playing a role here? sen. blackburn: china has been in the middle of this from day one, and they like the coziness with big tech, and they continue to push that, and they are doing it for a couple of reasons. you look at sites like tiktok, do? is tiktok trying to they want to capture those images.
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or those sites where you put in an image and it ages you or changes you or whatever, what are they doing? they are capturing your image, building a database on you. you and i have talked many times about who owns the virtual you, which is one of the questions i think everybody should be asking when they talk about their presence online. china wants to own the virtual you. they want to be able to replicate you online, and through these social media apps and sites, that is how they are doing it. huawei is the way they are doing it, trying to get into debt seplomacy with all the different countries and saying, we will provide you with 5g, with smart city technology, and by the way, we own the data. emily: senator marsha blackburn there with our own kevin cirilli.
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turning back to that facebook story we talked about earlier, facebook has removed a series of ads from president trump's reelection campaign for violating the company's policy .gainst organized state the social network has been criticized for not fact checking political ads, for taking political ad dollars at all, but just this week, they said users will be allowed to turn off political ads if they don't want to see them. joining us, the senior campaign director at color of change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization. brandy, i know you and your organization have been very vocal about the situation that facebook now finds itself in, including in calling for advertisers to boycott facebook for the months of -- for the month of july. i am curious for your thoughts on this latest development that facebook has taken down these ads, these most recent ads from the trump campaign. azi-leaningned a n
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symbol. >> hi. first of all, thank you for having me. i am relieved that there is some integrity that facebook is willing to show when it comes to disinformation on the platform. however, that is not enough. we have seen a lot of ways in which they have failed the process of democracy, the ways in which they have let white nationalists groups thrive on their platform, the ways in which they have allowed hate speech and a number of issues and have censored activists, and the ways in which they have shown, time and time again, that when it actually comes to ensuring that their platform can be used as a free marketplace of ideas, they are actually not willing to do the work for what it takes to make sure people are safe online and off-line. they have so much further to go,
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and they know it. emily: you are calling for advertisers to halt ad buys on facebook in july, and you say companies that don't do this will be "staying silent in what has been a global charge to end anti-blackness in every setting of our lives." why do you think advertisers should be doing this, and what is the reaction you have gotten so far? brandi: i think what we are dealing with right now is this moment globally where people are paying attention to the role of corporations in our lives, whether you are talking about facebook or any other corporation. when corporations come out and say "black lives matter" and put that on their twitter account and released statements, when you pop the hood, what you find is that they are -- is that shadyhiring practices are
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, and people are enduring racist behavior within their companies. when you see they are still willing to put down a lot of money on a platform that is well established as a place of hate and violence, not just in the u.s., but globally, we don't think it is that much to ask that they really put their money where their mouth is. if you care about black lives, this is one way you can do this right now. emily: you have been involved in a number of successful accountability campaigns, getting bill o'reilly taken off the air at fox, getting r. kelly dropped from rca. what do you actually want facebook to do here? what could accountability actually look like? brandi: there's a lot of players to that. we have been working with facebook for years on a civil rights plan. in the coming weeks, they will drop a final installment.
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have consistently called for permanent civil rights infrastructure that is really looking at the harms of the platform not just from a policy standpoint, but from implementation, engineering, product, etc. we want to see that they have a permanent skin in the game. also quite clear that it is not going to get there if left in the hands of a corporation. it's always going to be one step forward, one step back. we are calling for government regulation. we think there is a huge role to play right now for government, so nothing short of regulation, will actually get us to the facebook that i think everybody in the world deserves. emily: so, what kind of regulation are you calling for? do you think facebook should be broken up, and how? brandi: yeah.
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i think we could start with spinning off facebook or instagram, or even banning their ability to do mergers or to get new companies when they have already been shown to be a bad actor. i think it is kind of ridiculous, to be honest, that last year they received the largest find in history from the ftc, billions of dollars in fines for bad behavior, and in the last month, they have been able to acquire disney, continue on their merry way. we would like to see more from the ftc. i think it is clear and government that there is not expertise, knowledge, and resources to deal with what we are seeing unfold across social media platforms. we have joined cumbersome and jell-o brand in calling for a -- congresswoman gillibrand in calling for a protection agency.
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the ftc has passed one of the strongest privacy rules of the road that we have ever seen, and immediately that was blown up by congress. there is a number of things that we could see government do in this moment. i know representatives from your organization have been on calls with sheryl sandberg and mark zuckerberg. i know if he was here, he would bring up the good facebook has done in the world, including add momentum to movements like black lives matter. without social media, many people with not necessarily be aware of what happened to george floyd or rayshard brooks. that kind of situation went viral so quickly in part because of what facebook and companies like twitter have built. how do you balance the potential good that facebook has done for social justice with the bad?
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brandi: first, i want to be clear. i think people have done work for social justice, and whether it is people using tools at our disposal to show what is happening to us, organizing globally through a number of different channels, working to center justice in our site, it is the people power, whether you are talking about here, ukraine, india, or any number of places where people are fighting for freedom. the platforms have been helpful, yes, in the initial days. however, what we have seen over time, it has become more about toess to add data, access understanding much of our lives. we have seen a number of ways in which democracy has been broken in the philippines, in the u.s., in brazil, and in a number of spaces. we have seen so many problems and have seen then turn a blind eye, even when they are handed
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information from people within their own company. is technology wonderful and great, and should we invest in great technologies? yes. do i think any company, ceo, or anyone should be allowed to operate with any level of accountability and integrity? no. we have seen from facebook and other big tech companies that they can't be trusted. brandi, thank you so much for sharing your perspective with us. we will continue to cover these issues and hold companies accountable. and that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang in san francisco. bloomberg daybreak: australia is next. ♪ [ sigh ] not gonna happen.
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that's it. i'm calling kohler about their walk-in bath. my name is ken. how may i help you? hi, i'm calling about kohler's walk-in bath. excellent! happy to help. huh? hold one moment please... [ finger snaps ] hmm. the kohler walk-in bath features an extra-wide opening and a low step-in at three inches, which is 25 to 60% lower than some leading competitors. the bath fills and drains quickly, while the heated seat soothes your back, neck and shoulders. kohler is an expert in bathing, so you can count on a deep soaking experience. are you seeing this? the kohler walk-in bath comes with fully adjustable hydrotherapy jets and our exclusive bubblemassage. everything is installed in as little as a day by a kohler-certified installer. and it's made by kohler- america's leading plumbing brand. we need this bath. yes. yes you do. a kohler walk-in bath provides independence with peace of mind.
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