Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across the sector.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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Show Notes
Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across the sector.
They also discuss:
- How antitrust litigation, even if it fails, has a powerful effect on corporate behavior.
- Why interoperability is key to a competitive marketplace.
- How software patents have been weaponized to protect monopolies.
Further resources:
- “Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, they need competition instead” (The Economist, 2019)
- “Google lawsuit: the opening salvo in a battle to restrain Big Tech” (Financial Times, 2020)
- “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (Online book by Cory Doctorow 2020)
- “How US Lawmakers Plan to Tackle Big Tech” (Exponential View – subscribers only, 2020)
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