Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today, the tech industry is the second-biggest lobbying power in Washington, DC, but that wasn’t true as recently as ten years ago. How did we get to this moment? And where could we be going next? On this episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Daniel sit down with historian Margaret O’Mara and journalist Brody Mullins to discuss how Silicon Valley has changed the nature of American lobbying.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Tristan and this is Daniel.
0:03.2	Before we start, we're gearing up for a new Ask Us Anything episode.
0:06.7	If there are any questions you like to ask me, Aisa or Daniel,
0:10.1	we want to hear from you.
0:11.1	All you need to do is record your question on your phone and send it to undivided at humanetech.com.
0:17.0	That's undivided at humane tech.com.
0:20.0	Just recently there have been two big developments in technology reform.
0:28.0	The first is that the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act by a whopping 91 to 3 margin.
0:35.0	And the second is that a US federal court ruled that Google had an illegal monopoly in a huge win for the Justice Department.
0:41.0	And of course, Google is going to fight the case very hard,
0:43.7	just as social media companies will fight very hard to stop the full passage of
0:47.6	COSPA. But the most striking thing about this kind of reform is why has it taken this long for something to happen?
0:57.0	One of the big reasons for that is lobbying.
1:00.0	The tech industry is now the second biggest lobbying power in Washington, but that wasn't true as recently as 10 years ago.
1:07.0	So how did we get to this moment and where could we be going next?
1:11.0	That's the discussion we're going to have with our two incredible guests, Margaret Omera, who's a historian of the
1:16.1	tech economy and author of The Code, Silicon Valley and the remaking of America.
1:22.2	And also with us is Brody Mullins,
1:24.2	a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,
1:25.8	formerly of the Wall Street Journal,
1:27.2	who's recently published a book called
1:28.8	The Wolves of K Street,
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