{"id":93221,"date":"2025-08-24T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T09:24:24","slug":"understood-who-broke-the-internet-episode-3-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93221\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDERSTOOD: Who Broke the Internet? &#8211; Episode 3 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/podcastnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast News<\/a>\u00b7Transcript<\/p>\n<p>American antitrust laws were designed to stop companies from wielding the power of kings. But in the 1970s, a legal scholar named Robert Bork convinced Washington to ignore those laws. Host Cory Doctorow traces how Bork&#8217;s influence gave digital giants like Amazon a decades-long free pass to dominate markets, crush competitors, exploit their own business clients, and treat users like hostages \u2014 and how, after 40 years of inaction, former FTC chair Lina Khan took on the fight to rein in monopoly power.<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Aug 21, 2025 7:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 21<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The logo for Understood: Who Broke the Internet? In addition to the title, there is a broken hard drive against a black background. &quot;Episode Transcript&quot; appears beside the logo on a dark grey background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/understood-who-broke-the-internet-episode-transcript-image.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> (Art by Good Tape\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/podcastnews\/who-broke-the-internet-understood-transcripts-listen-1.7611600\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>\u00a0to access all transcripts for this series.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Podcast News\u00b7Transcript American antitrust laws were designed to stop companies from wielding the power of kings. But in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,244,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-93221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}