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Is this the year big tech gets regulated? (Probably not.)

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology, News Commentary

4.2 β€’ 9.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Scott blusters in from his breakfast with Congress on how to regulate big tech β€” so Kara and Scott get into whether Congress will ever be regulating tech (seems not so likely). Kara sums up her twitter showdown with Jack Dorsey. Also more shade thrown on media outlets doing a bad job β€” like Esquire Magazine featuring a cover story about being a white boy in America and more generally Tucker Carlson, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.4

Hi everyone. This is Pivot from the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher.

0:57.9

And I'm Scott Galloay coming to you from our nation's capital today.

1:01.6

Are you? What were you doing there? I had a breakfast with about a dozen congressmen

1:09.0

and congresswomen and a few senators and then I met with another senator to talk about.

1:13.6

Big tech. What else? Let's hear about what happened. Why were they all together for a breakfast?

1:17.6

I just was in Washington now. I'm in New York City. But what was the breakfast about?

1:23.0

There's a breakfast that's hosted by the Aspen Institute and it's every where are we

1:28.5

Thursday morning for the last I guess 30 years with a bring in a speaker on a topic of interest

1:33.9

and it's you speak for 15 minutes and then they throw questions at you and it's actually a

1:38.8

really nice environment and this was all about big. And what was your message? What was your

1:42.8

message to these congresspeople? Well you know my message. My message is that these organizations

1:48.0

have become invasive species. They are they are Sith Lords who started up the nine and then turn

1:52.9

to the dark side of the force and unless we arm we arm you are representatives with inside and

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