Why everyone hates Big Tech with Matt Yglesias of The Weeds

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Vox Senior Correspondent and host of The Weeds Matt Yglesias joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel in this special crossover episode to explain what Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows platforms to circumnavigate liability for user content, really means. They also discuss Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up big tech platforms, and how it may or may not fix anything. Subscribe to The Weeds for free here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.3	Hey everybody, it's you guys from the Vergecast.
0:23.7	On this week's interview episode, actually, it's a special crossover episode.
0:29.2	I sat down with Matt Iglesias, one of the hosts of Vox's The Weeds.
0:34.1	This is the crossover people have been asking for.
0:37.9	The Weeds and the Vergecast together at last.
0:40.0	Matt and I talk about everything policy-related and tech right now.
0:43.8	We talk about Section 230.
0:44.8	We talk about net neutrality.
0:45.8	We talk about antitrust breakups.
0:47.7	We talk about facts machines, to be honest, for quite some time.
0:51.7	And we talk about how we can fix it.
0:53.8	Check this out.
0:54.8	It's Matt Iglesias from The Weeds.
1:00.2	I'm Matthew Iglesias.
1:02.5	I'm joined today by Nila Patel.
1:04.8	And it's really a Vox media podcast network crossover event.
1:08.9	It's like the Avengers podcast.
1:10.9	It's the best.
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