Amy Webb and Cory Doctorow Fix All the Problems of Big Tech

• The dangers of dystopian thinking
• The dangers of utopian thinking
• Why we need an Office of Strategic Assessment vs why we need to break up monopolies
• Is the problem that the government can't write sensible regulation?
• Where should tech policy come from? Technologists? Smart people in government?
• Is the problem that the government lacks knowledge? Or that people in general lack knowledge? Or that they refuse to be knowledgeable?
• Bashing tech has become cool. Here's why that's dangerous.
• Lead in the water in Flint and binge drinking in Britain
• What is "The Problem" of Big Tech? Could we write a law to fix it?
• Should companies fear lawsuits?
• Is there a better way to make people and companies do things than regulation?
• Is California Prop 24 a step in the right direction?
• is Inrupt a step in the right direction?
• Privacy as a luxury good
• Five Eyes, Japan, and Australia want to end encryption, but privacy is still important
• Happy Rosh Hashanah!
• We need more public intellectuals. But there is a danger in being intellectual. And Jewish.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow and Amy Webb

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