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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court tackles the future of the Internet; the myth of the free market; The Communist Manifesto in today's era.

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0:00.0

The landmark cases that could change the internet and social media as we know it.

0:05.1

Two cases argued before the Supreme Court this week elicited cries that the cyber sky

0:10.5

is falling after all.

0:13.1

It is only nine justices on that bench and for them to kind of remake the legal framework

0:18.2

that all of the tech industry of the United States and a lot of the free speech online

0:22.4

around the world depends on is kind of a lot.

0:25.7

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:28.5

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:30.2

Some Americans are looking at capitalism and wondering if they've been kind.

0:35.4

Nobody wants to be a sucker and in a sense we've been suckered by the market fundamentalism

0:41.1

narrative.

0:42.1

Plus rereading the communist manifesto.

0:45.5

If you cannot engage with the way that the substance and the style are working together

0:51.5

you will never understand what kind of book this is.

0:54.8

So I'll come in up after this.

1:01.3

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:04.3

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:06.0

And I'm Michael Lohinger.

1:07.6

This week the high court pondered the fate of Silicon Valley.

1:11.1

Back to back oral arguments and landmark cases that could change the internet as we know

1:16.1

it.

1:17.1

This seems to be a come up for Twitter, Google, Facebook, at the Supreme Court.

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