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fifty years ago when the american naval vessel u.s.s. liberty was brutally attacked by israeli forces the attack on the liberty was one of the worst assaults committed by an allied country since then because of this unprovoked attack i've been seeking. to wrestle basic income when you have an economy around the world that rewards imagination and monetizes free thought free free movement of capital.
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twitter obsession seriously. and he says getting in the way getting in the way of war. i mean it's not as if there's a serious man behind. the trump who uses twitter so the trump who uses twitter. is. sort of. egocentric narcissistic so whether or not he uses twitter i don't think it really makes any difference and still the same trump thing you just thinking his staff members are worried because it would be better for the white house image that he laid off twitter that he would write less things that are hard for all to the image of the american friends yeah i mean i you hear a lot of stories about the why of. how they're trying to control him i think he's the type of person who if he wants to do seventy well irrespective of the white house and the white house stuff anyway it's very much divided in terms of
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personalities and ideologies so. my guess is that there's probably as much dispute amongst the white house staff on trump's use of twitter. as divided on policy issues. if twitter was trump's biggest problem i wouldn't be particularly. it's just that it sort of reflects the dysfunctionality of the ministration that a president should be using twitter to undermine members of his cabinet to mislead the country to put out different messages from his administration kind of exemplifies captures the profound dysfunctionality of this regime. we're not going to talk about triumphs decisions in politics. but i just want to
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talk about twitter and social media because it came into light with the election of donald trump and it showed how much power i don't think it's true i think. every election people say for the last two or three elections everyone's always said it's a twitcher election when obama was elected specially the kind of liberal intelligentsia the elites on the the west and the east coast they all said oh finally twitter is a media is able to generate. a candidate of the people. and finally social media is able to disinter mediate all the institutions of politics and produce a high quality leader and i think in some senses that was true certainly obama's use of social media broke through a lot of the clutter and then four years later eight years after obama was initially elected we have trouble who shows the really dark side of social media so
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i think what obama and trump show is the social media itself like all these internet technologies are just technologies. that there's no reason to suppose that they produce either good or bad leaders i think social media produced in my opinion anyway a very good leader in obama and then a very bad one in trump and. so to blame or to blame social media on the one hand or to say to demonize say or idealize it i think is the wrong way of doing nothing if there is just the two that people outside of the united states seem like parties and facebook posts for instance which for which both parties and facebook posts are more sicked after news on the established media the question is why do you think people turn to those posts and facebook as opposed to the mainstream. this face right so now the question here that reflects the echo
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chamber nature of social media which is a huge problem but it's not just a huge problem in america it's a huge problem well why where people are. retreating into that try and when they use particular facebook but also twitter they use these scenes to confirm what they already think but it's also true of television. in america for work says let me just finish this point about a television in america you have an echo chamber television culture where the left watch m.s.m. b c and the right watch fox and it doesn't really give them any news it simply lectures them and confirms what they already think social media is part of that but to pick out social media and say that the parts of media. innocent i think would be a mistake the question is do you mean like the social media gives them what they
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want to hear even more than the mainstream media although there's two kinds of people when it comes to understanding the either you want to understand the world in its complexity and then you read the washington post or the new york times over wall street journal which gives or listen to the b.b.c. which i think reflects the world in that complexity they all have political biases but not so dramatic that they shape their content or you want the world to conform to what you already think and then you then you use facebook or twitter or you watch fox and n.b.c. and everything you think is automatically confirmed the problem i think with digital media is it seems to be enabling that second category that second community but there are many other forces which are pushing that it's very disturbing because what you see is the disappearance of the middle the creation of these parties and camps. and fewer and fewer people are actually opening to listen to other people's
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dogs. we'll talk a bit about the addiction it causes i mean you're on twitter yourself but you say you're a writer so you need to be and there are so many people who are freelancers and they also have to be on twitter how do you get away with an addiction if it's a must you work i mean are we going to get to a point when it's going to mandatory to have an account. we're doing magistri i mean on the law no no not on the law but like if we don't have a twitter friends this. i'm a media person right and i'm not technology friendly and i've been accused by times of not being active on facebook not being active well instead of because that's the thing to do do you think you going to get to a point where you can't be successful unless you are in that. i'm not sure i think there's two responses to that i think that we live increasingly in a freelance economy where media becomes our platform to build our brands now maybe you have a full time job so you don't need to be continually trying to get work but for many
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people using twitter or facebook enables them to get work whether it's in media or many other things. but i also think that. it's beginning on the west coast and things always begin on the west coast there's a growing backlash against social media and actually the smartest the most independent the most interesting people particularly young people are actually giving up social media and i think over the next few years what we're going to see is the only losers to be left in social media really. think that your super. that's a debatable statement but can you what i mean you don't you have anything interesting in the sense that these things always work six to me and i know i've got kids who are bored with social media and most of their friends are bored with social media certainly facebook's. gone out of fashion then people are on facebook old people.
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parents and grandparents young people wouldn't be caught dead on facebook now the question is maybe they'll go from facebook to instagram or snap chat but at some point i think this generation of so-called digital natives is just going to get bored of all of these things so i think and i've been saying this for years that the real reaction to social media and technology is going to come from the digital natives the people who have grown up with this stuff and are just bored and discuss it and they just going to go back to the basics are they where they're going to go with something like artificial intelligence and connect their brains to a computer and i think what you're going to see is an interesting new book out called the revenge of analog you seen in the way in which this young generation is embrace final records you see in the way in which they now buy most skin pads you see in the way that they're starting to write letters again you're seeing it in the way in which the physical books survived against the digital book the digital book
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did well for a few years and now no one's reading on no one's reading on their candle they're all buying books again so i think this new generation will rediscover analogue and i think you'll see analogue becoming increasingly fashionable in the same way for example is when you have more and more self driving cars you'll find the manual cars will become more and more fashionable young people think for them so they're not stupid and there's always been this idea that somehow young people are all going to just immerse themselves in digital and do nothing else and i think that's a fundamental misreading of how innovative and independent thinking young people are so let's talk a bit about the jobs for instance corporations like google and amazon killing off smaller businesses people losing their jobs to services like. is this because the internet is a bad thing or it's because it's inevitable. it's
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a natural progression of technology why i wouldn't say either of those things the idea of internet being a bad thing is a reactionary statement the idea that technology is bad is i think an unwise position to take but there's nothing inevitable about it either what's happened with the internet is that you've had the so-called network effect which lends itself to. a very small handful of companies dominating the economy one of the mistakes people made about the internet was that this suppose that democracy is ational people thought would create lots of companies lots of different innovators lots of different entrepreneurs successful entrepreneurs reality is you only have one winner in each sector facebook in social media google in each car sharing. amazon an e-commerce so what you have is a very typical really development but exaggerated in
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economics we had it in the industrial revolution with the emergence of monopolies and the way to respond to that is in the way we've always done historically with legislation. and to trust legislation the idea that. technology is to blame for this i think is a mistake and then take a short break right now when we come back we'll continue talking to enter a cain internet entrepreneur and author. dangers of social media and internet in today's wall states. anything gentleman actually round you do you want boat. international aviation and
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space on merck's twenty seventeen will lose your seat a billion upright position. and stereo remote control you are needed for the marching bands twenty seventeen is a pretty innovative technology is modern and crafts and the latest achievements of the aerospace industry during my next year is will be offered simple. and really true vision along with the stunning that are about it sure. do not switch off your hard tonic devices used to share your experiences on social media we wish you cause of hearing. child's seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. the world that is
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yet to shape our disdain comes to etiquette and in games written equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media and the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.
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now we're back with andre cain internet and for an hour you touched upon the not only in the internet what's wrong with this giants if they are not going stale i mean they're developing all the time and monopolies are a bad there's two positions either peter t.e.o. very well second value entrepreneur investor thinks monopolies are good things they're a good thing if you're a monopolist and you're the winner they're a bad thing because they don't enable innovation when you had a monopolist like microsoft. they destroyed innovation they destroyed small companies google and amazon while they are innovators in their own way are also against innovation because they're trying to dominate their markets like any company would let's also million working on. cars and they in a way maybe they're doing they are in a way it is about doing it in the context of their business they're doing it to
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make sure that we use their drug driverless the idea for example that google. who already essentially the big data business. owns many of the other categories of the digital market should also the control the self driving car business is terrified google already knows everything we do through our phones android and i think is eighty six percent of all users use the android platform if we all get in our self driving cars and they know where we are all the time they're not evil they're big they're not big brother but what they'll do is continually. so the idea that google should control that entire platform i think is is. not only dangerous but also doesn't enable. innovation because google's interest is benefiting the change and it's not real innovation so what we need is a new wave of innovators new kinds of operating systems which are more open which
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enable more entrepreneur and more kinds of innovation you touched upon an interesting topic which is. google already knows everything controls all the data. and other the american civil liberty union and coverage that facebook and twitter actually provide it user data to police to create surveillance programs and then the social media giants are saying no you know no way they're banning developers from using the data for surveillance but i'm thinking using governments are going to give up on opportunities like that. let's be clear it's not as if twitter or google is looking at your information or my information saying oh you know they're shopping today or they're doing something they shouldn't be doing the problem with google in particular is not that they are not even that they're snooping their problem is their business model the problem is they give away their search engine for free and this business model then requires them to essentially collect data
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which then they pass on to advertisers so the big debate today is business models i think i much prefer the business model of a company like apple which sells products and doesn't collect data so it's not companies that are bad what's bad a business models and the business model that i think has been a profound mistake in the internet and eventually will be recognized as a mistake is the free model where we get services facebook google instagram for free and by using them they acquire our data and then sell that data to advertising that's the core of the surveilling this new what people are calling the surveillance economy and ultimately we're going to wake up to it and we're going to choose to pay for us this is once again and protect our privacy. there is the topic of terror. versus their actual right now when you see a terrorist and calling on jihad hume we i don't think anyone here i don't think
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anyone. twitter or anyone else would say. that that should be i want to say aloud the question is first the whether or not you allow is not much you can do to stop it and it's pretty much all out there twitting everybody really allowed i'm in a study not allowed to. isis has what is less socially he's in a world where they can have a lot of medias but they can stumble out to post beheadings. you don't need to be allowed to post beheadings to recruit fresh people to go and fight for isis but i think that there was a need to twitter is made every effort to close down. isis or accounts that are supposed to recruit isis terrorists i think again the question is wrong because the issue is again business models and media take you true for example we know that there's. a lot of dreadful content on you true
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beheadings seems to get through the filter the problem with you true business business model anyone's allowed to post anything and the business model of view through which makes it such a profitable company is not hiring a lot of adults is allowing everyone to post whatever they want and selling advertising around. the traditional media model is to cure rate is to create gatekeepers have editors and professionals like you who will determine what will appear on it what we need is to convince and perhaps legally require companies like twitter or facebook to hire editors to make sure that the content that's published on that network isn't offensive particularly when it comes to when it comes to terrorism in that sense you killed. birds with one stone on the one hand you can guarantee that the content isn't offensive and on the other hand you create a lot of new jobs in india too but aren't you walking in then the line there because
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i know already that there's legislative steps being taken to destroy this so-called dangerous contents were it content for example for facebook in israel. you don't see a potential abuse here i mean israeli army duz my post as dangerous but isn't that just an opinion. that's always true with free speech i mean this is been an ongoing debate for hundreds of years who's to say what people can say for frey should you be allowed to insult people should you be allowed to. say things which offend other people that's an ongoing debate so this isn't new the problem again with social media is that a lot of content which everyone agrees shouldn't be allowed to be broadcast live beheadings for example is slipping through the cracks because of the business
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model of this media that doesn't have curators now facebook has responded in some ways admirable service is going to shoot debates about fake news huge debates about . unacceptable content and what they did in response was hire six thousand more editors that's the only way you solve this only having human being manually watch a chick you have to look. if i. if i slapped you in this interview or i started taking off my clothes or if i started chanting jihad these slogans this wouldn't appear on your network because you would decide that it's inappropriate the only reason this will appear on the network is because it passes through the filters you are decided that i might be an interesting person to win. see the problem with you true business model is anything can be put up by anybody and the more content the goes up the more money you chewed makes because the more
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advertising my salary around the less people they have to hire and have to hire people ah you don't have to hire editors so what we need is more balance what we need a more editors szymon curators who can say look this is terrible there's no way. the national weather service in sterling virginia has issued a special marine warning for chesapeake bay from pools island to sandy point maryland chesapeake bay north of pools island maryland until four forty five pm at two fifty two pm strong thunderstorms were along the line extending from thirty nautical miles northwest of middle river to ten nautical miles north of north east river moving east at the team knots answered wind gusts thirty four knots or
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a. you don't leave universal basic income when you have an economy around the world that rewards imagination and monetizes free thought free thought free movement of capital and all the intermediary forces go out of business a lot of bankers lose their job a lot of politicians lose their job the nation state collapses as we know it and people are as free as their money because right now money is a lot freer than people. by the observed events of the past few years and asked myself several times what's going on in my native germany. really refute g.'s. us intelligence
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agencies indiscriminately listening in on german citizens and the government. and once again judgement takes a hit he's. meant politicians from various political parties and various independent experts and journalists in an effort to understand just how independent germany really is when it comes to decision making. whether it acts on its own national interests or his own someone else's will.
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in an exclusive interview with r.t. russia's prosecutor general's office slams allegations it was somehow involved in the meeting between donald trump jr and a russian lawyer. the prosecutor general's office would use a private floor to transfer information. from smocks a year since the deadly terror attack in nice but a french magazine comes under fire for printing graphic images of the atrocity. and a new videos emerged reportedly showing u.s. helicopters over the city of raka facti capital in syria washington has confirmed its forces do operate inside the city but only under the pretext of a by.

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