‘Totalitarian’ Threat Posed by Facebook and Google, Warns George Soros at Davos 2018

Not Even Orwell or Huxley Could Have Imagined ‘Totalitarian’ Threat Posed by Facebook and Google, Warns Soros

By Jake Johnson, staff writer– Common Dreams

Billionaire investor says there is serious threat of tech giants and authoritarian states teaming up to “bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state-sponsored surveillance.”

“They claim they are merely distributing information. But the fact that they are near-monopoly distributors makes them public utilities and should subject them to more stringent regulations.”
—George Soros   READ MORE

 

Also Read in full:

Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum – By George Soros

Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2018

https://www.georgesoros.com/2018/01/25/remarks-delivered-at-the-world-economic-forum/