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Headache. >> there's a solutions section at the end. >> i'm so happy we're going to get to the solution. but when you say how it's betrayed it, how has big tech betrayed us? >> it's gone from silicon valley to be a utopia to make information free, all of that, to distopia which is where we are now. are children being addicted to social media? monopoly power. there's this stew of issues. i'm connecting all three of those dots. >> i so appreciate you diving into this so the rest of us don't have to. because it is overwhelming. >> somebody has to do it. it feels like we're powerless to what they'...

But there need to be rules. the reason they don't want to police is that it opens up the box of liability which, you know, in the early 1990s when the internet was started and thee guys were entrepreneurs in garages, there were loopholes carved out so that platforms didn't have to take responsibility for anything people did. traditional media does have to take responsibility. these companies are basically giant advertising firms. if you think about google and facebook, they get 85% of their revenues through advertising. they're monetizing content. they're basically publishers. and so they need...

Washington. a lot of power. >> i do worry about our kids. that's how ubiquitous all of this is in their live. you wrote, one of the reasons we haven't found ways to curb big tech how it's tearing at the fabric of our society is simply that we are too busy being distracted by the bright and shiny products and services they make. it's a cruel irony. we're all too addicted to our gadgets and apps and facebook pages to address the problems in technology. >> you know, that's how i got interested in writing this book. my own son actually went down a rabbit hole with video gaming. i come home one day...

Temperatures in the 20s and 30s. a killing frost for many plants down there for sure. then beginning to warm up a little bit bit wednesday. the problem truly will be the morning lows. this is take care of your pet kind of weather here. when you see morning lows in detroit of 6. and that's not a windchill. that's the air temperature. so it's going to be a shock to the system for many people there including us down here in the south. >> john also wears mittens he just told me. >> and nothing else. what? if you're going to do this, i'm going to play. >> i understand that. you've come to play toda...

I used to work there. so do you. the bloomberg system, it's a technology company, if i go to send a message with an obscene word in it. it's unable to send, i get a compliance alert. the company says, if you keep behaving like this you can be off our platform. facebook, instagram, that i have the ability to do it. why wouldn't they? . >>reporter: so on instagram, i'm glad you asked about that. you can block certain kind of comments and key words in comments, but a lot of people don't know you can do that. it should be up to the user to decide. >> why should i have to do that? why wouldn't face...