This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, August 6, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The activist left and populist right both favor regulation of so-called big tech so how

do presidential candidates Harrison Trump compare on tech regulation?

Cato's Jennifer Huddleston breaks down the records and rhetoric so far.

Jennifer, careful listeners of the Cato Daily podcast will know that you and I have discussed the work of one, Lena Khan at the Federal Trade Commission and her views on tech, how it ought to be regulated, even more broadly sort of what the purpose of tech is. It's not clear to me and maybe you can

clarify it for me that Vice President Harris, a former senator from the great state of California, a Bay Area Native, somebody who

knows a lot of tech people, and I assume, has to have some sympathy for their views when it comes to

heavy-handed federal regulation. So do we have a sense of what her views are about

tech regulation based on her background and serving as Vice president right now.

When we're discussing the way that the two major candidates may address tech policy,

I think one of the trends we've seen emerge is that on both the progressive left and on the more

populace right there's been a push for greater regulation of tech companies and

kind of an animosity towards tech and innovation more generally.

As you mentioned we can kind of look at what Vice President Harris has done during the

Biden administration, which has been a lot of things around AI, including

potential AI regulations.

But we can also look at some of what happened in her time in the Senate when she was representing

California and her time as Attorney General

when considering what might happen as well. So for example she mentioned that

you know while she was concerned about some of the issues around, for example,

Facebook and potential calls to break up some of the tech companies.

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