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What Next TBD: A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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For nearly a decade, Margrethe Vestager has led Europe's efforts to rein in big tech. One newspaper article described Vestager as putting the fear of God into Silicon Valley. How is she thinking about fairness in tech in 2022? Guest: Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe fit for the Digital Age Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Earlier this week I spoke with Danish politician Margreta Vestager.

0:38.4

She's the European Commission's Commissioner for Competition and it's not a stretch to say she's one of the most important people in the world

0:46.3

when it comes to regulating big tech.

0:48.9

One newspaper article described her as putting the fear of God into Silicon Valley.

0:54.6

For Americans who aren't familiar with your work, how would you introduce yourself and say

1:00.1

what you do?

1:01.1

I'm a member of the European Commission.

1:03.2

I'm one of the executive wise presidents, but what it takes a lot of time in my everyday life

1:09.8

is to make sure that the European market is open.

1:12.6

But it's fair, that everyone who does business here

1:16.5

can do their business by the same rulebook.

1:21.7

Vestager has pursued case after case against the biggest tech companies in the world.

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