London gives Uber the boot, the billionaire's 2020 strategy, and streaming wars continue

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Uber getting kicked out of its biggest EU market, London. They parse out the ad, media and digital strategy of Michael Bloomberg in his quest for the White House. In Friend of Pivot, Kara and Scott have different takes on Google's recent firings of 4 employee labor organizers. In wins, Pivot welcomes Sacha Baron Cohen to the resistance for his speech about regulating social media platforms. Kara thinks Mark Zuckerberg failed this year in his "personal challenge" to have a series of public conversations about the future of tech -- of the 9 people he interviewed, 8 were men and they were all white. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. This is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Karris Swisher.
0:08.8	And I'm Scott Gallo. I carry you sound low energy. I'm not on energy. It's just thanksgiving
0:14.0	a exhausting time for me, especially now that there's a war on Thanksgiving apparently. Did you
0:19.1	hear that? Say more. Oh God. President Trump last night was acting like there was a war.
0:23.0	Remember the war on Christmas, which wasn't really a war. There is now apparently a war on
0:27.0	Thanksgiving, which said nobody never any time. In any case, happy Thanksgiving, fall harvest,
0:32.0	in all the seasonal holidays. I am so grateful to be here with you, Scott. How can you not love
0:37.7	Thanksgiving? No more also Jesus. I'm not pro-Ike about it. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm
0:41.6	going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to.
0:43.5	Amanda's mother cooks like nine pies. I'm a little bit nervous for tomorrow.
0:48.0	Do you have a lot of family? Who's in town at the Swisher? No, no. There's no. The Swisher
0:51.5	boys always go on a crazy trip with their other mom and they're in Tokyo right now sending me pictures
0:56.5	from like Tokyo. Tokyo. That's where they are sending from Mount Fuji. So they always go to
1:01.3	somewhere. They went to Cuba last year and I am in Boston with Amanda and her family, which
1:06.4	has about approximately 412 people. So here I am. That is that is literally that's that's crazy.
1:14.4	You're in a lot of cities. A lot of news. A lot of news. We got a lot to talk about. I mean,
1:18.8	first of all, obviously one of the biggest this week is London is ending Uber's license to operate.
1:23.3	The city's is Uber's biggest in the EU market. The London transportation regular strip its license
1:29.6	to operate in the city, although that's under appeal. They said the company is not fit and proper.
1:34.0	I love the British people to run private ride, ride, ride hiring service. And there's a pattern of
1:39.3	failure that puts passings at risk. It's an identification system that allows unauthorized drivers
1:44.9	to game the system. So it has 21 days to appeal the ruling and then the decision puts 45,000
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