The Next Four Years: Fighting tech monopolies

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Matt is joined by antitrust and competition policy expert Charlotte Slaiman to discuss the ongoing antitrust cases against Google and Facebook, the basics of antitrust litigation, and their outlook for the future of regulatory efforts to rein in the power of Big Tech through pro-competition policy. Resources: "Only Regulation Can Jumpstart Competition in Big Tech" by Gene Kimmelman and Charlotte Slaiman, Fortune (July 16, 2019) "FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization" (December 9, 2020) "Colorado Attorney General leads multistate lawsuit seeking to end Google's illegal monopoly in search market" (December 17, 2020) Guest: Charlotte Slaiman (@CharlottesWWWeb), Competition Policy Director, Public Knowledge Host: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Slowboring.com Credits: Erikk Geannikis, Editor and Producer. The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production. Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Eclaseus. We are continuing and, in fact, ending our next four years series here with a return guest, Charles Slamin, from Public Knowledge.
1:25.0	But she has been promoted since the beginning of the year.
1:29.0	She's a director of competition policy there, which is excellent. And we were going to talk about competition policy. And specifically, I mean, well, this is very the Weeds.
1:45.0	Politics seems more insane than ever. And Biden is trying to get his agenda going. But in a super literal sense, like he is just going to be inheriting some ongoing antitrust litigation.
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