Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Today seven companies rule the internet: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba, Microsoft and Tencent. Their CEOs say their power is due to their unique ideas and hard work, but hide the truth about the money that allowed them to become so big and the way they have rigged the system to maintain their power. Nick Buxton from the Transnational Institute presents five reasons why Big Tech became so powerful.

Read more in our State of Power report 2023 on digital power: tni.org/stateofpower

00:00:00 7 companies rule the Internet
00:01:30 Reason 1: Capital
00:02:28 Reason 2: Killing competition
00:03:12 Reason 3: Infrastructural dominance
00:03:52 Reason 4: State support
00:04:49 Reason 5: Lobbying
00:05:39 Bring down Big Tech
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