Better Offline

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 walks you through how the many monopolies of big tech hurt you on a daily basis. LINKS: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a>  Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a> Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a>  Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a> Ed's Socials: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/edzitron">http://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a>  <a href="instagram.com/edzitron ">instagram.com/edzitron </a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social </a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a> See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.