Substack - Barry Lynn on Liberal Democracy's Last Stand against Big Tech (Episode 2207

Executive director Barry Lynn appears on Keen on arguing that that big tech monopolies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft pose the greatest threat to American democracy, requiring urgent antitrust action to safeguard freedom

While many fear that Trump offers an existential threat to American democracy, Barry C. Lynn believes that the real danger comes from big tech companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Lynn, the executive director of the Open Markets Institute, is the author of “Antitrust Revolution”, Harper’s October cover story. Lynn argues that big tech offers the real threat to American freedom and major antitrust regulation is required to save liberal democracy. Not everyone will agree with Lynn, of course, but he has been the most consistent antitrust critic of big tech over the last decade and offers the most extensive economic and political critique of the Google/Amazon/Microsoft techno-monopoly complex.

Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Markets Institute. Over the past two decades, Lynn pioneered understanding of how the monopolies of the 21st century threaten our democracy, individual liberties, security, and prosperity. Lynn’s efforts to update anti-monopoly law and thinking for the digital era have been fully embraced by the Biden administration and have shaped the thinking of policymakers and scholars around the world. His warnings on structural flaws in international systems predicted today’s supply chain crises, and his proposed remedies have been widely studied by the U.S. government, Europe, Asia, the IMF, and the OECD. Lynn developed his thinking in three books — End of the Line (2005), Cornered (2010), and Liberty from All Masters (2020), as well as numerous articles, speeches, and congressional testimony. Lynn’s thinking has been profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Politico, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS, and his work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, and Danish. Lynn was previously the executive editor of Global Business Magazine and a correspondent for The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse in South America. He holds a B.A. in English from Columbia University.

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