Silicon Valley’s Rep. Ro Khanna talks tech regulation

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s interview episode, Nilay is joined by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Verge policy reporter Makena Kelly to discuss Congress’ plans to regulate Big Tech in the new year. Earlier this month, Democrats were able to take back a majority in the House of Representatives, and after blockbuster events this year like Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, lawmakers are gearing up to rein in these Silicon Valley giants. Khanna, who represents the California district that houses the Apple and Google campuses, was tasked with developing a set of principles these companies should abide by when it comes to issues like privacy, net neutrality, and anti-competitive behavior. He made the rounds, consulting with think tanks, the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and the tech companies themselves. From those discussions, Khanna was able to put forth a framework of 10 rights US citizens should have when they’re on the internet. Khanna’s set of principles is called the “Internet Bill of Rights,” and with Democrats recapturing the House, tech leaders like Khanna have a chance to codify ideas like these into laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.5	Hey, everybody.
0:30.3	It's you.
0:31.3	This week on the interview episode, we have representative,
0:33.2	Ro Khanah, who is the Congress person for California's 17th district.
0:37.8	That's a district that has Apple and Google in it.
0:40.4	He just was elected to a second term in Congress.
0:42.9	And I asked a new Vurch policy reporter,
0:44.4	Mechanicality, to join me.
0:46.0	We talked about everything from data privacy, to net neutrality,
0:49.4	to anti-competitive behavior from the tech ministry.
0:52.4	Last year, Representative Khanah wrote the Internet Bill of Rights.
0:55.3	He was actually assigned to this task by Nancy Pelosi
0:58.1	after all of the various scandals at rock the tech industry.
1:01.4	We talked about that a little, but really, we talked about
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