Taming Big Tech
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Europe has big plans to regulate the giant internet companies that shape our lives. But just how much will they force the likes of Google and Facebook to behave? This week we ring up Andrii Degeler, host of the Tech.eu podcast, to explain the whole thing without putting us to sleep. We're also talking about the French village with an astonishing history of helping the persecuted; bingeing on movies on a lonely Swedish island; and why the EU's design might make it harder to fight poverty.
Listen to the Tech.eu podcast here (https://podcast.tech.eu/) and find out more about how Le Chambon-sur-Lignon helped Jewish refugees during the Holocaust here (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/le-chambon-sur-lignon).
This week's Isolation Inspiration: Orff-Schulwerk: Gassenhauer (https://open.spotify.com/track/1sbtYPTZ2TW5T54JZaIshg?si=-bSHVY3nSNyn98LtKt3O4Q) from Klassix for Kidz (!) and Danish Netflix comedy Rita.
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Producer: Katz Laszlo
Assistant producers: Priyanka Shankar and Andrei Popoviciu
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Mick, one of the founders of RWE Europe, a really European magazine and media. |
| 0:06.3 | You might have heard of us, but if not, we're big fans and friends of the Europeans. |
| 0:10.9 | I hosted a chain this summer, and since the start of this year, we've started working more closely together |
| 0:15.4 | with Katie and Dominic and the rest of the team. At Rwee Europe, we launched our membership program this week. |
| 0:22.2 | If you like border-breaking journalism and European stories, why not join our club? |
| 0:27.4 | We will send you beautiful print magazines, multimedia stories, documentaries, and yes, |
| 0:32.5 | more special podcasts with the Europeans in return. |
| 0:36.0 | I know many of you already kindly support the Europeans on Patreon, |
| 0:39.7 | but why not come and join us too? |
| 0:41.8 | Membership starts at four euros a month. |
| 0:44.2 | Just go to areweeEurope.com to find out more. |
| 0:47.2 | That's areweeuro.com. |
| 0:49.9 | Enjoy this show. |
| 1:29.3 | Thank you. Enjoy this show. Welcome to the Europeans podcast, the show that stubbornly attempts to make the goings on of Europe sound at least vaguely interesting. This week, I actually think we don't need much help because for once, Urscila von der Leyen, Commission President of the EU, |
| 1:30.9 | has been headlining. |
| 1:32.8 | You make it sound like a fun festival. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, she's been headlining for all the wrong reasons. |
| 1:40.9 | I don't think it's been a very fun festival vibe in the Commission President's office this week, has it? |
| 1:43.4 | Definitely not a fun festival vibe, super awkward. |
| 1:44.5 | And you may be thrilled to hear that we are not going to talk about the vaccine wars this week, but I will start by asking UKT, |
| 1:49.8 | why did we both decide to live in countries that are vaccinating at the scale of tortoises? |
| 1:55.3 | I don't know. It's extremely embarrassing. I mean, France is doing marginally better than the Netherlands |
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