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How Biden’s staff picks could shape Tech policy

Recode Daily

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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As president-elect Joe Biden selects his staff, Big Tech allies and reformers are starting to battle over who will be shaping the tech industry. Teddy Schleifer explains why the Biden Administration could look like it did under Obama and why it might be different. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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As President-elect Joe Biden selects his staff, Big Tech allies and Big Tech reformers are starting to battle.

0:47.5

They're fighting over who's going to shape tech policy for the Biden administration.

0:51.5

When it comes to tech policy, in pretty much all things,

0:53.8

tech, Biden has been pretty quiet.

0:55.6

So whoever he chooses will give us an indication of Biden's tech policy

0:59.8

for the next four years.

1:01.1

Here to talk about all this is RICO's Teddy Schleifer. Hey,

1:04.7

what are some of the key roles and some of the key agencies that the tech industry

1:09.8

and tech reformers are fighting over what should we be watching for over the next couple of weeks?

1:14.2

So I would say there are three main ones. There's the head of the Federal Trade Commission,

1:19.0

the head of the Federal Communications Commission, so that's the FTC and the FCC.

1:23.2

And then there's the head of the Department of Justice's

1:26.1

antitrust division, the people that would be investigating

1:29.6

kind of tech giants for antitrust abuses. And you're right. I mean, Biden for a long time, you know, has not made tech issues a priority.

1:38.8

Obviously, there's a lot of other things going on in the world so you can sort of understand where he's coming from.

1:43.6

But sort of these boring bureaucratic jobs that no regular people really spend their days thinking

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