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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, to set the scene for Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second …
2 years ago
How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Google used their monopolies over search and search advertising to scam advertisers - and why the en…
2 years ago
How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse
A few weeks ago, a federal judge declared that Google has a monopoly over the search industry and text-based advertising. In this episode, Ed Zitron …
2 years ago
Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project…
2 years ago
Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain
In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about breaking up big tech, and how w…
2 years ago
Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation
As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot be decided entirely by four or five tr…
2 years, 1 month ago
How The AI Bubble Bursts
After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay…
2 years, 1 month ago
Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant
In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about t…
2 years, 1 month ago
The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac
In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the economics of the tech ecosystem, the ridiculousness of…
2 years, 1 month ago