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The Guardian - UK
Technology
Presented by Aleks Krotoski and produced by Jason Phipps, with Charles Arthur

Tech Weekly podcast: Acta on the out

This week on Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski and Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur we meet the man behind the search engine DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Wienberg. Gabriel discusses his approach to a very difficult part of the tech and internet business and why he thinks he can take on the goliath that is Google.

We discuss the future of Acta, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for telecoms and technology says that we are moving into a world without Acta.

Also we look at the thorny subject of internet porn and proposed controls at the ISP level and Aleks meets Eric Rosenbaum, one of the team behind a novel low-fi tech game called MaKey MaKey.

And ahead of Facebook's flotation, we ask if the social media company's share price estimation indicates a dot-com bubble in the markets.

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