Apple and Epic go to trial and Friend of Pivot Senator Amy Klobuchar

Pivot

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Apple going to trial with Epic over its choice to kick Fortnite out of the app store. They also discuss the upcoming Facebook Oversight Board decision on whether to uphold the ban on Donald Trump. Then in Friend of Pivot, we're joined by US Senator Amy Klobuchar to talk about the future of antitrust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.9	I'm Kara Swisher.
0:07.9	And I'm Scott Callaway.
0:09.2	Hey, it's a big week Scott.
0:10.6	This is a big week.
0:11.7	The Facebook board just said it was coming down with this decision whether Trump should
0:16.1	be banned or not.
0:17.1	We had to have a take.
0:18.1	We're going to talk about it obviously on Thursday because I think it's Thursday at 9 I believe.
0:23.6	So we'll have an ability to discuss this.
0:25.4	But I want your bet right now, right now.
0:27.4	My bet.
0:28.4	Your bet.
0:29.4	On whether they're going to keep them off or on.
0:31.5	They're going to remain banned.
0:34.4	My bet is that Facebook will live up to its roots of not showing any regard for the Commonwealth
0:40.4	and pretending that they are the town square and wrapped himself in this bullshit first
0:47.2	of them in the cloak and come up with some sort of conditional blah, blah about him returning
0:52.0	because they think they can sell more Nissan ads.
0:54.3	I think that they'll decide to kind of slowly, slowly let him back on.
0:58.5	This is the Facebook oversight board.
1:00.3	They are independent of Facebook.
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