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Sam talks with Benjamin Ellis about proposed UK/EU regulations - link tax, copyright tax


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CEO of SocialOptics. We talked about the numerous EU regulations being proposed against GAFA web giants (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon).

Is it time to regulate their power or is it too early? Some have even called for them to be broken up, as they are monopolies abusing user data.

We also talk about the UK Parliament's call this week for an antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook. Parliament even called Facebook 'Digital Gangsters'.

We then talked about the proposed EU regulations article 11 (link tax) and article 13 (copyright tax) as well as the EU commissions proposed platform-to-business (P2B) law to outlaw some of the most unfair trading practices and to create a benchmark for transparency.

And finally, we touched on the copyright challenges now appearing in AR/VR worlds.

--- Related Links:

https://www.theguardian.com/…/facebook-fake-news-investigat…?

https://techcrunch.com/…/uk-parliament-calls-for-antitrust…/

https://www.reuters.com/…/google-amazon-among-those-targete…

https://www.wired.com/…/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platf…/

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Benjamin Ellis is the CEO of SocialOptic a SaaS driven technology business serving the Government, Education, Medical, Health and Professional Services sectors with AI/ML powered large-scale data analytics, planning and analysis tools.

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