What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - A Conversation With Europe's Top Tech Cop
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🗓️ 3 April 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 1:08.0 | Earlier this week, I spoke with Danish politician Margaret Avestaier. She's the European |
| 1:13.4 | Commission's Commissioner for Competition, and it's not a stretch to say she's one of the most |
| 1:18.4 | important people in the world when it comes to regulating big tech. One newspaper article |
| 1:23.6 | described her as putting the fear of God into Silicon Valley. For Americans who aren't familiar |
| 1:30.6 | with your work, how would you introduce yourself and say what you do? I'm a member of the European |
| 1:36.0 | Commission, I'm one of the executive vice-presidents, but what it takes a lot of time in my everyday life |
| 1:43.6 | is to make sure that the European market is open, that it's fair, that everyone who does business here |
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| 1:57.7 | biggest tech companies in the world. She's one fine against Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, |
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