Don't Get Complacent - Ep 26-162

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But let’s not get too comfortable. The same forces that built this system aren’t going to just pack up and go home. They’ll rebrand, recalibrate, find new language. “Suitability frameworks,” “content adjacency metrics,” whatever the next buzzword is. It’ll sound like it belongs in a PowerPoint, and it’ll do the same job if nobody’s watching.Which brings me to you.Because this isn’t just a legal story. It’s a cultural one. It’s about whether we allow unelected, unaccountable networks of corporations to decide which ideas get to sustain themselves.So here’s what I want to know from you:Are you surprised it took the government this long to step in and say, “Hey, maybe colluding to choke out half the political spectrum isn’t exactly pro-competition”?How many voices do you think we lost over the last decade because they couldn’t survive financially, even though people wanted to hear them?Do you trust these ad companies to play fair now, or do you think they’ll just find a more creative way to tilt the table?And maybe the biggest question of all… if they were willing to do this quietly for years, what else is happening behind the scenes that we haven’t caught yet? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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