E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 18, 2021

Duration

1h 27m

Channel

All-In Podcast

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Show Notes: 00:00 Besties intro 03:37 Lina Khan appointed to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission 07:02 Will Lina break up big tech? Which one will be first? 18:02 Potential repercussions to consumers 27:48 Sacks’ antitrust experience at PayPal vs. eBay, Visa & MasterCard 29:50 Google’s multi-trillion dollar data trove 35:40 The U.S. government's capability to silently take data while “gagging” Big Tech 53:32 COVID’s psychic shadow, Friedberg’s office landlord is still requiring masks 1:00:17 Jon Stewart’s lab leak bit on Stephen Colbert’s show 1:10:04 California’s wildfire risk increasing with climate change 1:20:57 Bestie summer plans Referenced in the show: Chamath's 2019 Annual Letter re: Big Tech breakup https://www.socialcapital.com/annual-letters/2019 Big Tech Gag Order (mentioned by Sacks) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/13/microsoft-brad-smith-trump-justice-department-gag-orders/ Obama Administration Record Seizure (mentioned by Sacks) https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?referringSource=articleShare California Forest fire maps (mentioned by Friedberg) https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1398474379214802951/photo/1 Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8 #allin #tech #news

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Jason Calacanis

  host

• David Friedberg

  host

• Chamath Palihapitiya

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of All-In Podcast, featuring Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg, E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more explores all-In Podcast debates antitrust, surveillance, censorship, COVID, and climate risk This episode of the All-In Podcast centers on the confirmation of Lina Khan as FTC Chair and what her "hipster antitrust" approach could mean for breaking up Big Tech, platform monopolies, and startup innovation. The besties debate whether focusing beyond consumer prices to long‑term market structure and power concentration is wise or dangerously politicizing. They then examine secret DOJ subpoenas to Apple and gag orders as a civil-liberties threat, YouTube’s medical-misinformation enforcement versus emerging lab‑leak consensus, and the lingering psychological and policy hangover from COVID restrictions. The show closes with a deep dive on Western wildfire risk, climate, forest management economics, and how politics complicates rational responses.

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