Wed 10/07 – The House Antitrust Report

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🗓️ 7 October 2020

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The House has released its big antitrust report on big tech. Facebook has banned Qanon everywhere it can. DDR5 chips are finally here. Shogun is an interesting raise. And could a VR infinity treadmill be the next home workout hit, AND the first step to Star Trek’s holodeck? Sponsors: Monday.com/ride Wipers123.com Promocode: RIDE Links: House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes (CNBC) House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups (NYTimes) Facebook completely bans QAnon and labels it a ‘militarized social movement’ (The Verge) SK Hynix Launches World's First DDR5 DRAM Modules Rated At 4.8 Gbps And Beyond (HotHardware) Shogun raises $35M to help brands take on Amazon with faster and better sites of their own (TechCrunch) This extremely slippery VR treadmill could be your next home gym (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, October 7th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	The House has released its big antitrust report on big tech.
0:13.4	Facebook has banned QAnon everywhere it can.
0:16.6	DDR 5 chips are finally here.
0:19.2	Shogun is an interesting raise and could a VR infinity treadmill be the next home workout hit and also
0:26.1	maybe the first step to Star Trek's holodec. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:31.1	Two huge stories dropped late yesterday afternoon. In a
0:37.5	normal news environment they'd have been front-page stories and not just in
0:41.7	tech circles but in the current news environment, did you even
0:45.3	hear that after a 16 month probe? House Democrats released their 450 page report on the
0:52.4	competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
0:56.6	Their conclusion was, all four enjoy, in their words, monopoly power, and the report outlines
1:02.4	various changes to combat that including
1:05.1	breaking up the businesses quoting c. n. The recommendations from Democratic staff
1:11.0	include imposing structural separations and
1:14.4	prohibiting dominant platforms from entering adjacent lines of
1:17.1	business. This means that the Democratic Staff recommends solutions including
1:21.1	forcing tech companies to be broken up or imposing business
1:24.1	structures that make different lines of business functionally separate
1:26.8	from the parent company. For example, this could include a scenario such as
1:30.2	forcing Google to divest and separate from YouTube or Facebook doing the same with
1:34.7	Instagram and WhatsApp.
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