Twitter's unlikely to be big enough to attract any real antitrust scrutiny, although they might under section five. But one of the terms that we could set as a condition of a settlement is you have to do this. Under GDPR, even under the failed and not very great privacy bill that was up federally in the last session,. It's like, it's the Kumbaya version, like nobody seriously disagrees that you should be able to get your data from someone who has it. The book is choke point capitalism, how big tech and big content captured creative labor markets by Corey Doctorow and Rebecca Giblen.
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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