Big Tech and a Decade of Antitrust with Cory Doctorow

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across the sector.

They also discuss:

  • How antitrust litigation, even if it fails, has a powerful effect on corporate behavior.
  • Why interoperability is key to a competitive marketplace.
  • How software patents have been weaponized to protect monopolies.

Further resources:

  • “Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, they need competition instead” (The Economist, 2019)
  • “Google lawsuit: the opening salvo in a battle to restrain Big Tech” (Financial Times, 2020)
  • “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (Online book by Cory Doctorow 2020)
  • “How US Lawmakers Plan to Tackle Big Tech” (Exponential View – subscribers only, 2020)

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