Zuckerberg does nothing about Trump, Google’s Incognito is not Incognito?, Amazon bonds and a prediction about 2020 IPOs

Pivot

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News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Zuckerberg doubling down on Facebook policy that allows Trump to continue posting inflammatory content on the platform. They also discuss a new lawsuit against Google that says the company may be breaking Federal wiretap laws when people use private browser modes. Plus a listener mail question on Amazon bonds and a prediction about the 2020 IPO class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:05.2	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:06.2	And I'm Scott Galway.
0:07.6	How you doing Scott?
0:08.6	How's it going?
0:09.6	This is pretty tiring.
0:10.6	I was thinking about it.
0:12.1	I'm learning.
0:12.9	I find that Professor learns how nice.
0:16.9	Yeah, I'm trying to not immediately pick a position and dig in and just fight, fight,
0:22.7	fight.
0:23.7	So I will start off with a couple things that I've been illuminated to or how my thinking
0:29.0	has changed.
0:30.0	I thought a lot about what was going on was largely driven by income inequality.
0:35.4	We had peace, I love military history.
0:40.1	Essentially at the end of World War II, the Allies dropped two inches of incendiaries, basically
0:46.5	cowed or across the desert.
0:48.9	And then we dropped these flammables, these sparks, and we set off a firestorm in the desert,
0:53.6	the fire bombing of the desert, and it killed more people than the nuclear detonations
0:58.9	over Japan.
0:59.9	And we don't talk about it because it's not as cool as the detonation of a nuclear bomb
1:04.4	involving splitting the atom.
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