Global corporate tax, Facebook's data breach and a Friend of Pivot on "cancel culture"

Pivot

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News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Kara and Scott discuss Janet Yellen's call for a global corporate tax and what that would mean for corporations. They also discuss a new report saying that Facebook leaked millions of users' personal information. Then we're joined by Columbia Professor, John McWhorter, to discuss the line between cancel culture and accountability, 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 in the box media podcast network. I'm
0:06.4	Cara Swisher and I'm Tim Cook. No, you're not Tim Apple. You mean he's leaning into it.
0:11.8	All right. So let me get this. Okay. Tim Cook. Tim Cook was on. I'm trying to think you have
0:16.7	two podcasts. I'm going to guess which one Tim Cook was on. I'm doing. He'd be better
0:23.9	banter with you and me, but he's trying to build this new. Yeah. So I'm going to go out on a
0:30.4	limb here and suggest that the CEO of the most valuable company in the world and technology,
0:36.1	which is supposedly the same of this show. Yeah. That's the same. It's Microsoft. I think,
0:38.7	but go ahead. Keep going. He went on a more more of an obvious fit for Pivot. Yeah. Yeah. He went on.
0:46.4	Yeah. Let me think. Let me think. Swade. Oh my God. Swade. He was on. I'm not even going to go there
0:53.0	because it's getting a little tired. Just tell us about the interview you did with Tim Cook.
1:00.6	You know what? Listen to me. Listen to me. Scott. This was a natural place to go. Apple versus
1:06.8	Facebook. What are your thoughts there? I think look, we're going to talk about this in a minute,
1:10.7	but Facebook is that of, you know, all time high, right? That's not at all time high. So it
1:14.9	doesn't really matter what Tim Cook does or thinks about them because nobody seems to care.
1:19.2	You know, until the government gets involved, even though they're going to do this trans,
1:23.9	I think it's a TT something transparency thing, nothing's going to happen to them. And so,
1:30.8	Cook is just going to push ahead with this thing where you get to click that you're being
1:35.3	tracked essentially or not. And I don't know how much is going to affect Facebook. And he said
1:40.4	he's not thinking about them at all. He thinks it's a flimsy argument to argue that it's
1:44.4	anything but privacy matter. You know, that it's he doesn't understand why there's so much pushback
1:49.2	from them and others. So I, you know, I think they're just, and he also said they're not competitors.
1:54.8	He doesn't consider them competitors. They are sort of like, what I said on CMBC this morning,
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