Consciously Uncoupling from Silicon Valley w/ Cori Crider

How do we yank power out of tech oligarch hands without handing it over to someone else?

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Cori Crider is a fearless litigator turned market-shaping advocate. She started litigating during many years at leading human rights organisation Reprieve, and then moved on to co-founding Foxglove so she could sue big tech. Now she’s set her sights on market concentration.

Cori’s analysis concludes with a hopeful message: we are not stuck in place with eight dudes running the show. In fact, we’ve been here before. The computer age never would have happened the way it did if thousands of patents weren’t liberated from Bell Labs in 1956. How can we use similar tactics to dethrone monopolies and think about how Europe and other large jurisdictions can decouple themselves from silicon valley infrastructure?

Further reading & resources:

• Antitrust Policy for the Conservative by Mark Meader of the FTC
• The Open Markets Institute
• The Future of Tech Institute

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