#273: [The] Breakup Speech: Antitrust and Free Speech

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Legislators on both the left and right have raised concerns over the control a few major platforms have over online speech. Is breaking up those platforms a way to protect free expression on the Internet? Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow for technology and innovation at the Charles Koch Institute and former acting chief technologist at the FTC, joins the show to discuss the problems with this approach. For more, see his essay on the subject.

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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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