Cory Doctorow

Okay.

Yeah.

So...

Look, I think you're right that people can use technology in terrible ways, but I also think that, like,

There's a lot of reasons to be angry right now, and a lot of them have to do with the conduct that gave rise to tech monopolies and other kinds of monopolies, right?

But before, just because I limited time, I did want to talk about what is the solutions.

You know, you had some.

So there were four things that used to keep tech companies in check, and we can bring them back.

So one was that they had competitors.

We can do antitrust again.

It's not like it's trying to figure out how to build pyramids without power tools, right?

We know how to do this, right?

It feels like the pyramids are easier to build than getting antitrust laws back in the day.

You know, it took 20 years from the time we passed the Sherman Antitrust Act to the time we broke up Standard Oil.

It's a long-term project, right?

The best time to prevent monopoly formation is before they form.

It's right now, during a mega-presidency.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is the best time to do it.

But we also need to regulate.