Tech Regulation's Crucial Year — With Sen. Mark Warner

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Senator Mark Warner takes us inside the battle to regulate Big Tech. Elected in 2008 and serving his third term in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Warner joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether we should regulate Big Tech and how the companies are fighting back — overtly and covertly. Ahead of the midterm elections, this year is crucial. In the second half, we also discuss whether members of Congress should trade individual stocks.

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1:06.8	Music implement today. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed nuanced conversations of the tech world and beyond.
1:14.0	Well, you're all in for a treat today. We're nearing what everyone is calling crunch time for the big tech anti-trust bills.
1:20.7	And, you know, we want to get a look at what's happening inside Washington right now when it comes to big tech and the way that Congress views these companies. And who better to do it than Senator Mark Warner? He joins us today from his
1:32.1	office in Washington. It's been a heck of a start to the year. Lots of stuff going on. Senator Warner,
1:37.4	welcome to the show. Alex, thanks so much. It's hard to imagine that it's only January 10th. I was just looking back at what was happening
1:46.6	last year and like week one was the capital riot. Week two was impeachment. Week three was the
1:53.6	inauguration. And week four was the GameStop rebellion in the stock market. It's just like that
2:00.3	was such a crazy month. And it feels like things haven't really slowed market. It's just like that was such a crazy month.
2:01.4	And it feels like things haven't really slowed down.
2:04.5	It just keeps getting, you know, more and more intense.
2:07.5	It does.
2:08.3	I mean, we've obviously got, and part of this is due to Congress's fault of inability
2:14.5	to kind of get our act together.
2:15.7	But, you know, the current things,
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