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How big tech monopolies made the internet worse
In an interview with the On the Media podcast, writer Cory Doctorow explains how a noncompetitive market has deteriorated the user experience.
Doctorow spoke with Micah Loewinger for an episode of the WNYC podcast On the Media, recorded live as part of last Saturday’s Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. Earlier this year, two federal judges ruled that Google had acted illegally to build a monopoly and engaged in anticompetitive behavior to protect its market control over search engines. The United States has long used the threat of tariffs to coerce other countries into privileging American tech companies at the expense of users’ data privacy and freedom to use alternative products, he said.
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