Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Then European member states like Spain and France and Germany started doing stuff.

And then we also got it in England and we got it in the UK in a period where like their politics were so screwed up that like they had prime ministers who were lasting for 10 years that were shorter than the shelf life of a head of lettuce, you'll recall.

And yet this was the period in which the Competition and Markets Authority, which is their answer to the FTC, did its best work ever.

Like all the best Americans, I'm Canadian.

And honestly, I can't hear the difference.

I mean, I can hear the difference between a Texan and someone from Newfoundland, but I can't, but you know, generic newscaster, Canadian accent, generic newscaster, American accent, all the same.

But we had the world's most useless competition authority.

So our competition bureau in its entire history had challenged three mergers and that number may seem low, but the number of mergers they'd successfully challenged was zero.

And in 2024, Justin Trudeau whipped his caucus to pass the most muscular antitrust law

with the most sweeping powers of any competition bureau in the world.

And Justin Trudeau was not like a foe of corporate power, right?

He was like, his whole brand was sort of Pete Buttigieg style, like kind of neoliberal, like, you know, sort of McKinsey good hair.

The status quo, but let's make it a little bit better.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we get this out of Justin Trudeau, but we also got it in South Korea and in Singapore and in Japan and Australia and also China.

Wait, what was happening?

So different things in different countries.

South Korea and Japan pursued antitrust cases against Apple for price fixing in the app store.

So if you sell anything in an app, if you collect any money in an app.

30% goes to Apple.

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