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Lew Later

Tech CEOs Get Grilled By Congress

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Technology, News, Tech News

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Congress held an antitrust hearing featuring the CEOs of the World's biggest tech companies. Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook were questioned.

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0:00.0

This whole antitrust thing,

0:05.0

thing, wow, what a wild ride.

0:08.0

When you left last night, you had, you left it running, right?

0:14.8

And I was thinking, okay, I'll watch this for a bit.

0:18.5

A bit.

0:20.3

This thing, the time stamp for this event six hours and 36 minutes. They're making Lou later look short

0:28.8

Oh baby and I'm sitting there watching their posture as they're getting grilled thinking how can you sit like that

0:35.7

Particularly Pichai who's sitting with great posture for five hours.

0:43.2

Oh my God.

0:45.7

Anyways, obviously this thing was very painful to watch,

0:49.0

painful for a billion different reasons. See how I used a billion because it's a billion different reasons.

0:53.0

See how I use billion, because it's a bunch of billionaires up there.

0:55.5

It was painful for a billion different reasons.

0:58.9

It's so bizarre, first off, to see all these billionaires in the same space and you were talking earlier you say I wonder if they

1:07.2

after it's all said and done if they have a separate call where they can just chat about

1:12.1

what just took place because really who are they going to share this experience with having been grilled by all these congresspeople politicians whatever it happens to be, so I want to do a breakdown of this.

1:25.0

I know you, people in the world do not want to watch

1:28.0

six hours and 36 minutes.

1:30.0

It's very difficult to do it.

1:32.0

So I watched, I would say an hour and a half and then this morning I read a bunch of different recaps that is to attempt to consolidate what took place. The basic premise here is that a number of officials sat in a room with a bunch of billionaires from the biggest tech companies on the other end of what looks like, it's Cisco WebX conference call and they

1:56.4

aimed to they aimed to uncover information to interrogate these billionaires as to whether or not their activities are

2:08.8

anti-competition. If they are in some way too powerful and stifling the marketplace through a

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