In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about breaking up big tech, and how we can find hope in the hopelessness of multiple monopolies and algorithms.

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Thomas Germain: https://x.com/thomasgermain

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In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about breaking up big tech, and how we can find hope in the hopelessness of multiple monopolies and algorithms.
LINKS:
Thomas Germain: <a href="https://x.com/thomasgermain">https://x.com/thomasgermain</a>
vkgoeswild: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKM5fcSsaEFZRP-bjH8Y9w">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKM5fcSsaEFZRP-bjH8Y9w</a>
Dan Yang: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/realdanyang">https://www.instagram.com/realdanyang</a>
Cities By Diana: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/citiesbydiana">https://www.instagram.com/citiesbydiana</a>

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 

Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.



Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/4eab59f9-26b0-446a-9aa7-b1d2014addef/transcript

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Google used their monopolies over search and search advertising to scam advertisers - and why the entire tech industry should demand that Google is broken up and forced to compete like the rest of us. 

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In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Google used their monopolies over search and search advertising to scam advertisers - and why the entire tech industry should demand that Google is broken up and forced to compete like the rest of us. 
LINKS: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a> 
Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a>
Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a> 
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How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/021fc4b3-59b9-4191-afb2-b1e2017b8916/transcript

A few weeks ago, a federal judge declared that Google has a monopoly over the search industry and text-based advertising. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the many monopolies of big tech hurt you on a daily basis.

LINKS: http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks

Newsletter: wheresyoured.at 

Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline

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http://www.twitter.com/edzitron

instagram.com/edzitron 

https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social 

https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

A few weeks ago, a federal judge declared that Google has a monopoly over the search industry and text-based advertising. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the many monopolies of big tech hurt you on a daily basis.
LINKS: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a> 
Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a>
Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a> 
Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a>
Ed's Socials:
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How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/5c69ed14-ee7d-48b6-91d5-b1e00128a8b9/transcript

In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project to explain what a monopoly is, why they're so pervasive, how America entered a "monopoly crisis," and what all of this means for Google, Apple, Meta, and the rest of big tech.

Want to read the transcript of this episode? Go to wheresyoured.at/stoller

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In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project to explain what a monopoly is, why they're so pervasive, how America entered a "monopoly crisis," and what all of this means for Google, Apple, Meta, and the rest of big tech.
Want to read the transcript of this episode? Go to <a href="http://wheresyoured.at/stoller">wheresyoured.at/stoller</a>
BIG by Matt Stoller <a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/</a>
Matt Stoller on Twitter <a href="https://x.com/matthewstoller">https://x.com/matthewstoller</a> 
Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a>
Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a> 
Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a>
Ed's Socials:
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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/8b65eb58-9d57-411e-b32c-b1d9010fee44/transcript

Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain

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