Video and Transcript for Big Tech and Fascism
Trapped in a maze extracting as much money as possible while providing as little value as possible is platform controlled extraction. Our guest this week defines the problem and provides solutions.
Below you can find a YouTube post of the recording for Episode #56, Big Tech and Fascism.
This week’s episode features author, legal scholar and Columbia professor of law, Tim Wu, whose new book explores the history of platform technologies shaping commerce in society. He takes us on a deep dive historically, and quickly brings these insights up to modern times, describing the chokehold current big tech platforms have put on innovation and creativity. Recently this phenomenon has begun to infect not just tech, but numerous other areas of modern commerce.
This is not as heavily edited as the podcast, it’s closer to the raw video of our taping session. We also have a rough transcript for you.
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Definitely one of my favorite episodes. Thanks Matt, Dave, and Tim. Happy Thanksgiving.
Pointing to electric utilities as a viable model was a bit of a record scratch moment in the podcast. I don’t know where you all live but here in NY we are being reamed by utilities and captured public service commissions. The only residents avoiding the pain are those in publicly owned utility areas. And given the example of Wikipedia as a bright unshitty light, then maybe the discussion needs to also include alternative ownership models. Capital is as capital does, no?