Ben at top of the hour. Now on bbc news. Hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im steven sackur. Can and should anything be done to halt the inexorable rise of the western worlds Global Technology giants, the likes of amazon, google and facebook . Over the past decade, weve seen these tech titans come to dominate data collection, cloud computing, retail, social media, publishing the list goes on. But now there is pushback from antimonopoly lawyers and sceptical politicians. My guest, American Lawyer lina khan, is in the vanguard of the movement to tame big tech, but whose interest is she serving . Lina kahn in dallas, texas, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me. Do you believe there is a new momentum behind the push to tame the big, the giant Technology Companies in the western world . Yes, i think there absolutely is. I think weve seen a transformation in Public Opinion over the last few years and the public case for how these firms have so much power and how theyre
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