Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

This week we're excited to bring you a conversation with Rachel Bovard of newly created Internet

Accountability Project or IAP. IAP's mission is to land a conservative voice to calls for

federal and state governments to reign in the power of Big Tech. She's also the co-author

of a new book titled, Conservative Knowing What to Keep, which she wrote Senator Jim

Rachel brings more than a decade of policy experience on the hill to the emerging tech debate

on the left and the right. Now we know it's easy for these kinds of discussions to get bogged down

in the weeds of wonky jargon and acronyms, so we try to focus our questioning around a central question.

What do all the debates about Big Tech actually have to do with the average American consumer?

To better frame how we talk about these issues, we created a character for the week show.

Meet Brenda. Brenda is a suburban housewife. She might live in the Midwest or rural

swing state. She's a baby boomer or a Gen Xer who uses Facebook to keep up with the news and her

family. She might have an Amazon Alexa in her house and she might email using a Gmail account or

an operator's smartphone. Brenda's our mom or our mom's friend. Basically we're all very familiar

with her. With Brenda's our guide, we'll see answers to questions like this Alexa listening to

her conversations in her home. What kind of data are Amazon, Facebook, Google, and others gathering

about her? Are we living in a technological, guldaed age? And whether or not state,

governments in Congress need to rethink the laws that govern the way social media companies

operate? Let's get to it.

Rachel Boevard, good thanks for joining the re-alignment. Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. Okay, so the reason that we wanted to have you on is your

accomplish heel staff. We've worked the conservative partnership institute with Senator Jim

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