How Facebook and Big Tech lost the room
David Cameron, fresh-faced and years away from the convulsions of the Brexit referendum, stood before investors and entrepreneurs to lay out his vision for Silicon Valley in Britain. “Something is stirring in East London,” he said. Launching plans for East London's Tech City, he lavished praise on Google and Facebook for building new campuses in the city and promised a light-touch approach to US tech giants. “Don’t interfere so much that you smother, but do help wherever you can,” he said. More than a decade on from that speech in 2010, the dial has shif...