The Curse of Bigness

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Ralph welcomes the man who coined the term “net neutrality,” Tim Wu, who talks about how we need to break up concentrated power in Big Tech and other industries. Then, Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored, returns to talk about the state of the media as outlined in his new book “United States of Distraction.”

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.0	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.0	You've been sitting way too long.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David Feldman.
0:19.0	Happy after Labor Day to you, David. Thank you.
0:22.7	It's good to be back.
0:24.6	And we have the man of the hour,
0:26.2	Ralph Nader back in Washington, D.C.
0:28.1	Hello, Ralph.
0:29.1	Hello, everybody.
0:30.0	What an hour is going to be.
0:32.1	Yes, we have a lot of show today.
0:34.0	Of course, regular listeners know
0:35.9	that one of Ralph's major themes
0:37.6	is the problem with concentrated power,
0:39.7	whether we're talking about corporate or government power.
0:43.0	The concentrated power of big tech has been in our crosshairs for quite some time now.
0:47.6	Well, today we're going to talk to a man who has been ahead of the curve on all of this.
0:51.2	He actually coined the term net neutrality. His name is Tim Wu and he is a law professor at Columbia who has written extensively on all issues related to technology and the law. And today we're going to focus our discussion on antitrust and how we need to bring back
1:05.0	trust-busting in the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt and Louis Brandeis.
1:09.2	Also on the show we're going to elaborate on the conversation we had last week with John Nichols, who talked to us about media consolidation,
1:15.8	we welcome back Mickey Hoff, the director of Project Censored, who is co-authored a new book entitled
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