This Week in Tech 793: The J to J Protocol - a podcast by TWiT

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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