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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the tech policy podcast. I'm Ash Kazarian. |
0:10.0 | On today's show, we're going to talk about breakup speech. |
0:14.0 | I know that sounds very exciting, but it is still tech policy related. Don't get too excited. |
0:20.0 | That's the beginning of an essay name that recently was published with a Knight First Amendment |
0:25.9 | Institute at Columbia University. |
0:27.9 | The full name is the breakup speech. |
0:29.8 | Can antitrust fix the relationship between platforms and free speech values? |
0:34.4 | One of the offers, Neil Chilson, is with us today to talk about it. Neil is a senior |
0:40.0 | research fellow for a technology and innovation at the Charles Koch Institute slash stand |
0:44.5 | together. Previously, Neil served as acting chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission |
0:49.4 | and as an attorney advisor for FTC Commissioner Maureen Ollhausen. Neil, thank you so much for |
0:54.0 | joining the show. |
0:55.0 | Thanks for having me. |
0:56.0 | So the tension between antitrust and free speech and platform regulation is not something new. |
1:03.0 | It's been in the news and it's been discussed for quite a few years now. |
1:07.0 | The most recent one would be on May 16th, which is about a week ago. President Trump |
1:13.6 | tweeted, the radical left is in total command and control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and |
1:18.8 | Google. The administration is working to remedy this illegal situation. Stay tuned and |
1:24.6 | send names and events. The problem that Tech Freedom has seen with that statement is that the First Amendment |
1:31.4 | bars politicians from remedying what they see as political bias of private companies. |
1:37.8 | We've written letters about it. |
1:39.5 | We've written analysis of that. |
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