This episode of the Green Left Show focuses on big tech, the government's proposed media Code, Google' threat to abandon Australia, the Greens' proposal for a publicly owned search engine and free speech online and on social media.

Guests are: Lizzie O'Shea (Lawyer and writer and chair of Digital Rights Watch); Aleks Wansbrough (author of "Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen, Myths and Allegories of the Digital Age") & Gauri Gandbhir (activist and writer with Green Left).

Read more about the media code: here

This episode on Green Left online: here

Discussion points: Understanding the media code [2:00]; government funding for media [7:18]; Greens' proposal for publicly owned search engine [10:45]; arguments against publicly owned search [17:59]; breaking up big tech vs public ownership [29:35]; free speech and social media [34:40]; "free speech" and the far right [45:27]; on politicians [54:12].

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