Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Meta: Major tech companies are suffering in the stock market right now, some of them have lost market values ​​of $500 billion and more since the beginning of the year.

They have sometimes frightened investors with fewer subscribers or a rather gloomy outlook, at the same time the large central banks are now tightening their monetary policy again, even in Europe.

And then there are many new rules and legislative initiatives to restrict the largest Internet corporations in particular.

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Is that enough justification?

Or is there more to it?

And does that also have to do with the fact that digital currencies like Bitcoin are losing massive amounts of value?

We discuss all of that in this episode.