Welcome back to Xerrorado, where we take just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics.

Sponsored by Bridge Bank. Be bold. Venture wisely. I'm Dan for Mack. On today's show, the tech fight over fighting child exploitation and what happens when big schools shut down.

But first, bailing out America. So coronavirus is spreading like, well, like a virus through

America's economy. And we're beginning to hear much louder talk about possible government

bailouts of particularly hard hit sectors like cruise lines and airlines. There's even been some speculation that the White House is looking to bailout shale companies,

better known as fracking companies, as the price of oil plummets.

But so far, we've gotten no specific bailout proposals from the White House, or even word

on if federal bailouts are coming, while Congress, it's scheduled to go on vacation next week.

The big question right now is if there is political will for bailouts, following voter blowback

in 2008, and if so, how they'd even be done. The buzzword this month from health officials

has been containment, you know, in terms of quarantining individuals who might have been exposed

to coronavirus, but there's no real parallel of containment for American business, where an untold number of

industries are being hit simultaneously with butterfly effects going out in every direction.

Even pro sports, an industry that usually prints money and it would be impossible to bail out

without voter rebellion, it's not immune. As some teams

might soon lose the customer ticket revenue, they need to pay players. And that doesn't even

account for all the stadium and arena workers whose hourly wages would disappear. Like in 2008,

bailouts today would be no sure economic fix. Those who put together the plans back then

weren't even sure it would work,

even though history's been fairly kind to them. It's unclear of today's policymakers in the White

House or in Congress have the same sort of inclination or stomach for the fight. In 20 seconds,

we'll go deeper with Jeff Stein, White House economics reporter for the Washington Post. But first,

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