EPISODE · Oct 7, 2020 · 4 MIN
The Brutal New Antitrust Report—Most Interesting Thing in Tech
from What's New · host SpokenLayer
The House has released a brutal new report on anti-trust. It takes the big tech companies to task and lays out, with damning new documents and brutal evidence, the dangers to American capitalism of having so much market power accumulate in so few companies. And one of the biggest ideas in there: consumer harm shouldn’t be measured just by how much we pay for things. But also whether monopolies force us to give up other things of value, like our privacy, in return for using their products. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The House has released a brutal new report on anti-trust. It takes the big tech companies to task and lays out, with damning new documents and brutal evidence, the dangers to American capitalism of having so much market power accumulate in so few companies. And one of the biggest ideas in there: consumer harm shouldn’t be measured just by how much we pay for things. But also whether monopolies force us to give up other things of value, like our privacy, in return for using their products.
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