Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
English - January 06, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 558 ratingsTechnology News Tech News intelligence automation economics economy future government robots science society technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across the sector.
They also discuss:
How antitrust litigation, even if it fails, has a powerful effect on corporate behavior.
Why interoperability is key to a competitive marketplace.
How software patents have been weaponized to protect monopolies.
Further resources:
“Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, they need competition instead” (The Economist, 2019)
“Google lawsuit: the opening salvo in a battle to restrain Big Tech” (Financial Times, 2020)
“How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (Online book by Cory Doctorow 2020)
“How US Lawmakers Plan to Tackle Big Tech” (Exponential View – subscribers only, 2020)