Matt Pearce

It's a media problem. It's a problem for every institution, which is that this tech that gives us much more freedom to see the flaws in the institutions that we have instead of giving us new and better institutions is giving us new and better tyrants.

Individual solutions. If you're somebody who cares about accountability journalism, just find something that you like that produces investigative journalism and give money to that. I mean, like I mentioned earlier in this conversation, investigative journalism is the thing that cannot pay for itself. And so your individual listener dollars

Individual solutions. If you're somebody who cares about accountability journalism, just find something that you like that produces investigative journalism and give money to that. I mean, like I mentioned earlier in this conversation, investigative journalism is the thing that cannot pay for itself. And so your individual listener dollars

Individual solutions. If you're somebody who cares about accountability journalism, just find something that you like that produces investigative journalism and give money to that. I mean, like I mentioned earlier in this conversation, investigative journalism is the thing that cannot pay for itself. And so your individual listener dollars

going to ProPublica or something like it, or Grist or places that do independent accountability work, serious investigative journalism. Give your individual consumer dollars to that. On a sort of collective social basis, I mean, I think we do have a couple gigantic monopolies that we need to break apart through antitrust action.

going to ProPublica or something like it, or Grist or places that do independent accountability work, serious investigative journalism. Give your individual consumer dollars to that. On a sort of collective social basis, I mean, I think we do have a couple gigantic monopolies that we need to break apart through antitrust action.

going to ProPublica or something like it, or Grist or places that do independent accountability work, serious investigative journalism. Give your individual consumer dollars to that. On a sort of collective social basis, I mean, I think we do have a couple gigantic monopolies that we need to break apart through antitrust action.

The part that's going to be really weird about this administration is that It's going to do illiberal antitrust. So it's going to keep trying to break up Google. It's going to try to place some checks on media companies doing mergers. There was a report in the FT that said that Donald Trump wants to put a stop to all that stuff, but he's OK if oil and gas companies continue to merge.

The part that's going to be really weird about this administration is that It's going to do illiberal antitrust. So it's going to keep trying to break up Google. It's going to try to place some checks on media companies doing mergers. There was a report in the FT that said that Donald Trump wants to put a stop to all that stuff, but he's OK if oil and gas companies continue to merge.

The part that's going to be really weird about this administration is that It's going to do illiberal antitrust. So it's going to keep trying to break up Google. It's going to try to place some checks on media companies doing mergers. There was a report in the FT that said that Donald Trump wants to put a stop to all that stuff, but he's OK if oil and gas companies continue to merge.

So we're going to have this horrible like Viktor Orban version of antitrust where the competition authority says, It harasses the enemies of the state and allows its allies to consolidate and gain more control of the economy. That's bad. And I think there's a strong argument that some antitrust in that form would be worse than no antitrust whatsoever.

So we're going to have this horrible like Viktor Orban version of antitrust where the competition authority says, It harasses the enemies of the state and allows its allies to consolidate and gain more control of the economy. That's bad. And I think there's a strong argument that some antitrust in that form would be worse than no antitrust whatsoever.

So we're going to have this horrible like Viktor Orban version of antitrust where the competition authority says, It harasses the enemies of the state and allows its allies to consolidate and gain more control of the economy. That's bad. And I think there's a strong argument that some antitrust in that form would be worse than no antitrust whatsoever.

And I think we should just have full antitrust and just break up a lot of these companies. I mean... We had a lot of people who got sent home during 2020 and handed giant stimulus checks who created startups that became actually surprisingly durable companies that continue to grow and defy some academic analysis.

And I think we should just have full antitrust and just break up a lot of these companies. I mean... We had a lot of people who got sent home during 2020 and handed giant stimulus checks who created startups that became actually surprisingly durable companies that continue to grow and defy some academic analysis.

And I think we should just have full antitrust and just break up a lot of these companies. I mean... We had a lot of people who got sent home during 2020 and handed giant stimulus checks who created startups that became actually surprisingly durable companies that continue to grow and defy some academic analysis.

And I think that's a sign that we've got an economy and especially a tech sector where we do have some incumbents who are squatting on a lot of really talented people and squatting on competition and preventing more interesting things from emerging. We need more blue skies.

And I think that's a sign that we've got an economy and especially a tech sector where we do have some incumbents who are squatting on a lot of really talented people and squatting on competition and preventing more interesting things from emerging. We need more blue skies.

And I think that's a sign that we've got an economy and especially a tech sector where we do have some incumbents who are squatting on a lot of really talented people and squatting on competition and preventing more interesting things from emerging. We need more blue skies.

We need more ambitious projects that are going to try to shake up what we've got, because I don't think we've realized exactly how stultifying the internet has become. And we won't realize how stultifying it is until maybe Donald Trump breaks it up a little bit. It just may be happening alongside some bad stuff as well. So it's going to be weird.