#888 How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords - Canadaland

May 29, 2023

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#888 How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords

The ad tech giants, Meta, Google, and their ilk, are, well, giants. Is Cory Doctorow the David to this Goliath? Will his plan to take down the giants work?

Jesse Brown

Host & Publisher

Bruce Thorson

Senior Producer

Tristan Capacchione

Audio Editor & Technical Producer

Annette Ejiofor

Managing Editor, Podcasts

Big tech critic Cory Doctorow lays out a four-part plan to save the news media from big tech's stranglehold.

The plan: create a comprehensive new privacy law, open up the app stores to true competition, return to the internet's founding principle of true end to end delivery, and finally, splinter Meta and Google into smaller independent competing companies.

Would it work? How close are we to any of this?

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor)

Further information:

  • Cory Doctorow – https://craphound.com/

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