Why everyone hates Big Tech, with The Verge's Nilay Patel

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Verge editor-in-chief and Vergecast host Nilay Patel joins Matt 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. Recommended reading: Why the internet's most important law exists and how people are still getting it wrong by Alex Castro Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke by Nilay Patel Subscribe to Vergecast! Join the Weeds Facebook group! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Technology policy is like a really fascinating area and it really sits at the intersection
0:04.4	of what Vox covers a lot, which is politics and policy, and what one of our sister websites
0:08.7	the Verge covers, which is technology itself.
0:11.4	So we've got a special crossover podcast episode for you today, which I sit down with
0:15.6	Nila Patel, host of the Verge cast, and we really talk about a lot of the issues that
0:19.1	are pending in Congress in the presidential campaign that sit at this intersection between
0:23.3	politics and policy.
0:24.3	It's really interesting crossover, I think you're going to enjoy it.
0:30.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:43.6	I'm Matthew Glacias, I'm joined today by Nila Patel, and it's really a Vox Media Podcast
0:49.2	Network crossover event.
0:50.7	It's like the Avengers podcast.
0:51.9	I would say I get asked on the Verge cast for this crossover more than anything.
0:58.2	Because there we go.
0:59.2	Nila is editor-in-chief of the Verge.
1:01.2	He is host of the Verge cast, which is a, I'm told it's the flagship podcast.
1:07.0	Yeah, I firmly believe that you can make things true just by saying them over and over again.
1:11.9	And so I've said it over and over again, and now people think it's true.
1:14.9	Okay, so speaking of things that people think they can make true by saying them over and
1:19.2	over again, I have been hearing more and more from Republican members of Congress about
1:24.8	something called Section 230, which they think is a big problem with technology companies.
1:31.0	Right?
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