For the first episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Kyra Jasper and Alina Utrata discuss the politics of anti-monopoly in tackling technology companies, focusing on the United States. October turned out to be a very significant month for Big Tech in the US. First, the US House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee released a report on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google that found those companies had monopoly power. And, about two weeks later, the Department of Justice launched an anti-monopoly suit against Google. Kyra and Alina discuss some of the political arguments around monopoly approaches.

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Mentioned in the episode:

https://powerswitchorg.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/the-political-arguments-against-digital-monopolies-in-the-house-judiciary-report/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/06/technology/house-antitrust-report-big-tech.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/20/us/doj-google-suit.html

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylj/vol126/iss3/3

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/digitaliberties/from-territorial-to-functional-sovereignty-case-of-amazon/

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjreg/vol33/iss2/5/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3akm7/how-facebook-bought-a-police-force

http://web.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/wordpress/just-giving/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/business/reactivate-facebook-account.html

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/27/facebook-free-basics-developing-markets

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-india-ban

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13676.pdf 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-internal-metric-violence-incitement-rising-vote

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/facebook-philippines-dutertes-drug-war

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41801071

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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