Pace continues at a greater speed here but if im taking stock here it seems to me the disconnect between the liberal liberal media in the liberal elites with everybody else because we kind of stretches out you know brags that 2016 that was a one off trump 20068 that was a one off and now its go to this year the election thats a one off you know its not this is a trend thats going on here and were all told no no no no that this is not a trend these are one offs i think that 2019 was the year hey dont you finally get it go ahead alex. Yeah i agree with that assessment peter i think the main theme of 2019 was really the disconnect between what the media what the elites the globalists the permanent state the deep state whatever you want to call it what they try to tell us what they try to convince us of and what the people are interpreted as true in fact by doing their own research by going to their own alternative news media sources and trying to find the truth on their own time and no 3
Pace continues at a greater speed here but if im taking stock here it seems to me the disconnect between the liberal liberal media in the liberal elites with everybody else because we kind of stretches out you know brags that 2016 that was a one off trump 20068 that was a one off and now its go to this year the election thats a one off you know its not this is a trend thats going on here and were all told no no no no this is not a trend these are one offs i think that 2019 was the year hey dont you finally get it go ahead alex. Yeah i agree with that assessment peter i think the main theme of 2019 was really the disconnect between what the media what the elites the globalists the permanent state the deep state whatever you want to call it what they try to tell us what they try to convince us of and what the people are interpreted as true in fact by doing their own research by going to their own alternative news media sources and trying to find the truth on their own time and no 3 stori
Trailing it, microsoft, about 50 for the year joining us, ted smith, cofounder cramer likes to say apple is the key to the market. Do you agree i do. What about it is so important . I think the breadth of technologies they deliver to consumers and enterprises over time, and the fact in the latest cycle where they come out with apple pay, apple card, all of the partnerships theyve got going, in addition to core products, theyre so dominant on so many fronts. Getting investors familiar with new fronts has been a bit of a challenge this year, feels like were getting there, wouldnt you say the thing we talked about is slowing of iphone sales. The dominant apple story of the last decade is actually coming, that chapter is over they have to transition people to things like subscription services, streaming is one of the big wars payment, theyre doing more retail things now. With apple credit card, i think as a new chapter opens, were seeing more and more stuff like that. You talk about apple
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Remember the time when the internet was trumpeted as the tech tool that would deliver us a golden age of knowledge, freedom and democracy . Well, now we are in a darker, more cynical place. The digital revolution has generated fears about lost privacy, mass surveillance and systemic misinformation. Have the corporate titans of tech failed us . Well, my guest today is brad smith, president of microsoft. How do we ensure our astonishing technological advances are harnessed for good, not harm . Brad smith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, nice to be here. You have served an extraordinary amount of time at microsoft, the best part of three decades. You have seen the evolution of our attitudes toward Information Technology and the internet in particular. I have referred to the sort of great positivity, the optimism, in the early years. Would you agree that these days, we are much more anxious and fear
[applause] this past june in a new england town a cyber operative came in and talk to fbi agents and local Law Enforcement and that tip suggested that a 9yearold little girl was being sexually abused. The abuser was using a particular apps to send out images of what he was doing to that little girl while remaining anonymous. Our agents along with state and local partners contacted the provider using Legal Process. We got information that allowed us to locate that little girl in less than 24 hours, we obtained multiple search warrants, rescued her and arrested her abuser. In another case over the summer, a different child creditor use a different apps. They have to distribute it sexually was images, 112, one, 13 years old, responding to a tip agent serve Legal Process on that apps provider located in rescued those young girls in less than 12 hours. Both of those cases could have ended very differently because without information from Tech Companies, both tips and responses to lawful ord