Amazon Can Justifiably Say With a Straight Face That We Are Doing What's Right for the Customer

This episode surprised us; through a discussion of who is at fault in the latest series of new vs old-world spats, we realized that not only has the Internet fundamentally changed winners-and-losers, but also the very nature of economic competition and the type of regulation that is required.

Topics & Links

• Mathew Ingram: Giants Behaving Badly – GigaOm

Google v MetaFilter

• Matt Haughey: On the Future of MetaFilter – Medium

Journalism v Facebook

• Mike Hudack: A Rant About the State of Media – Facebook
• Ben Thompson: Newspapers are Dead; Long Live Journalism – Stratechery

Amazon v Publishers

• Ben Thompson: Publishers’ Deal With the Devil – Stratechery
• George Packer: Cheap Words – New Yorker

Antitrust, Network Effects, and the Age of Abundance

Do Tech Companies Have a Responsibility to Society?

On how the Internet has fundamentally changed the world, and how government regulation is hopelessly behind

Hosts:

• Ben Thompson, @monkbent, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth

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