Recode Decode: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about breaking up Big Tech, immigration, hate speech, and more. In this episode: Foreign influence on the 2016 election; protecting future elections; Silicon Valley's days of self-regulation are "probably" numbered; state and federal privacy legislation; net neutrality; hate speech online and how "haters" make themselves victims; should Washington break up Big Tech?; Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act "could be a question mark and in jeopardy"; Democrats' relationship with tech; illegal immigration and startup founders; education and job automation; how Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez use Twitter; Trump's tweets "have cheapened the presidency"; the media's complicity; should there be no political ads on the internet?; and how Pelosi's coat became a meme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.
1:12.0	You may know me as the sponsor of the Red Chair New Deal, but in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to
1:17.0	Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:20.0	Today in the Red Chair is Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
1:25.0	She's been on this podcast before back in 2016, which seems like a lifetime ago.
1:30.0	Today, we're going to talk about privacy, hate speech, and whether the big tech companies should be broken up.
1:35.0	We're also going to talk about Trump on Twitter and Nancy Pelosi's red coat as a viral sensation online.
1:41.0	Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
1:44.0	Thanks for talking to me. That was my pleasure.
1:46.0	So we have talked before. We talked before the election last time.
1:51.0	When we didn't know it was going on, we didn't know so much of what was happening with social media and everything else.
1:55.0	We've got a lot to talk about. We have a lot of things to discuss.
1:58.0	So let's start with what you guys are doing here.
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