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The Realignment

135 | Alex Kantrowtiz: Can Tech Survive Washington’s Onslaught?

The Realignment

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a crossover between The Realignment and Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast/newsletter Big Technology. Alex Kantrowitz returns to The Realignment to discuss the five new bills targeting big tech companies, what Lina Khan’s appointment as chair of the Federal Trade Commission means for the the industry, what the Wuhan lab-leak theory means for the future of content moderation, and whether conservatives get a fair shake on social media platforms.

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0:00.0

Marshall and Saga here welcome back to the realignment.

0:03.3

Every platform eventually realizes that you can't have just this free-for-all and you

0:13.1

need to make rules.

0:14.8

And I do think it's interesting that the more activity or the more prominent folks are

0:19.0

going to end up getting moderated at some point.

0:21.3

I don't know what the solution is honestly.

0:23.9

You're never going to have a content moderation policy that's going to end up treating

0:29.4

all political sides equally.

0:32.5

And you know if you have content moderation on a platform and the platform is largely

0:36.0

inhabited or provides life to like one side of the political spectrum, they might run into

0:41.7

the content rules more often.

0:48.2

Today we've had an episode I've wanted to put together for the past couple of weeks.

0:52.1

We are bringing back our good friend Alex Cantoritz.

0:55.6

He hosts the Big Technology Podcast, he writes the Big Technology newsletter and as he talks

1:01.2

about the end of this episode, he is slowly but surely growing the Big Technology YouTube

1:06.4

channel where he posts his interviews of really interesting people like Andrew Ross-Sorkin,

1:11.3

ourselves, a lot of really great stuff here.

1:13.7

But we are talking about a huge topic which is the tech industry, the big tech bills that

1:20.5

came out of Congress.

1:21.5

So these are the bipartisan bills that are seeking to break up tech companies, challenge tech

1:26.4

power.

1:27.4

And then we're talking about Lena Khan who has recently appointed to the FTC.

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