BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot, or Not?

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.3 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Kanter, who heads up the Justice Department’s antitrust division, believes that antitrust laws are critical for innovation — from ad tech to A.I. The assistant attorney general is bringing a new philosophy to enforcing those laws. So, how is his new approach to protecting competition playing out? Plus: Can you guess whether that was a bot, or not?

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0:00.0	Kevin, what are we doing here? It's not HardFork Friday.
0:02.2	It's not HardFork Friday.
0:03.3	And yet we have a new HardFork.
0:05.1	That's very exciting.
0:06.0	Yeah, this is a special bonus episode.
0:07.6	So a couple of weeks ago, we told you that we were doing a show at South by Southwest,
0:12.4	HardFork Live. And we wanted to share that with you today.
0:15.8	I had a great time.
0:17.6	Yeah, it was really fun to go on the road.
0:19.9	Thank you to everyone who made it out and stuck around afterwards to say hi, take selfies,
0:25.2	et cetera. Very fun.
0:26.0	My favorite listener and I will not sort of give away any identifying personal information
0:31.3	for reasons that will soon become obvious.
0:32.9	But in order to see the HardFork Live show, you were supposed to have a South by Southwest
0:37.8	badge.
0:38.6	And this person somehow talked their way past the security guard and just said,
0:43.8	I really want to see the show and was able to see the show illegally at a cost to South by
0:49.8	Southwest of several hundred dollars.
0:51.2	So we just wanted to say thank you and respect to the people who would do anything to see the show.
0:56.6	Yeah, shout out to all our podcast pirates out there.
0:59.7	One thing we think you would love to hear is our conversation with Jonathan Canter.
1:04.0	Yeah, Jonathan Canter is the Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice.
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