The European Union's Insistence on Facebook's Takedown of Material

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Henry Fowl: The internet for a long period, there was a kind of an equilibrium in which United States managed to persuade everybody that self regulation and platforms looking after their own business was more or less okay. That equilibrium has broken down, it has broken down in the US, it has broke down in Europe, and it is broken down in authoritarian societies in particular. So I think we're going to see more and more efforts to try and use the platform companies effectively as means of extending reach into other jurisdictions," he says.

The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell’s theory of weaponized interdependence. Whether it’s China’s influence over the NBA, the US ban of Huawei, or whether social media should be regulated on a global scale, Henry Farrell has played a key role articulating how global economic networks can enable state coercion.

Tyler and Henry discuss these issues and more, including what a big tech breakup would mean for security and privacy, why political economics suggests Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t work, what Italy might reveal about China’s future, his family connection to Joyce, his undying affection for My Bloody Valentine, why Philip K. Dick would have reveled in QAnon, why Twitter seems left-wing, and being a first generation academic blogger.

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Recorded October 7th, 2019 Other ways to connect

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