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Exchanges

The Battle for Our Screens, Part 4: The Moving Pieces of Tech Policy

Exchanges

Goldman Sachs

Business

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As the pandemic has increased our reliance on digital platforms and services, debate around tech regulation has come into the spotlight, from antitrust enforcement to consumer privacy protection to national security concerns. In this episode, Faryar Shirzad, global head of Goldman Sachs’ Office of Government Affairs, gives an overview of the moving parts of tech policy today – including the latest analysis of the U.S.’s stance toward TikTok – and explains why these issues don’t fall clearly down political party lines. This is the final episode of a four-part miniseries: Exchanges Deep Dive: The Battle for Our Screens, which brings together experts from across Goldman Sachs to analyze how the pandemic has shifted our lives digitally and forever changed how we rely on technology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Exchanges Deep Dive, the battle for our screens.

0:07.3

I'm Jake Stewart, gold the head of corporate communications here at the firm.

0:10.2

This is the fourth and final episode of our four-part deep dive into the digital shift caused by the pandemic.

0:17.0

We've talked so far about online shifts in entertainment, work, and social media, social connection.

0:23.0

And now to round it all out, we're exploring the policy side of things,

0:26.3

all the moving parts and pieces around tech regulation in the year 2020.

0:30.8

And to talk about that, we're joined by my colleague and friend Farjar Sheirsun, who is co-head of Bowman

0:37.1

Sachs Office of Government Affairs. Welcome to the program, Farayor.

0:40.0

Thanks, Jake, happy to be here.

0:41.8

So Farayor, you've been working and thinking about these issues

0:45.2

for a long time.

0:46.6

Let's talk about social media.

0:48.2

How is the November election weighing

0:51.3

into the outlook for regulation on social media companies and what does that

0:55.4

conversation look like right now in policy circles? That's interesting because

0:59.2

social media is actually playing a pretty prominent role in the elections,

1:02.5

but not necessarily as an election issue.

1:04.9

And so it's not as though it's an issue on which

1:07.1

voters are expressing a view and deciding which way

1:10.6

they vote in terms of Democrats or Republicans.

1:13.4

But nonetheless, it's a pretty prominent issue

1:15.6

in the sense that it plays into both sides'

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