Name: Scott Galloway Wants Big Tech Broken Up
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Scott Galloway Wants Big Tech Broken Up' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Scott Galloway Wants Big Tech Broken Up' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-08. Transcript available.

what i've heard you also talk about the four horsemen right and like a lot of
the um uh
dangerous collaboration of media right and like um with apple amazon google yep
and facebook yeah
very good and you've been a part of like antitrust act activation towards them
i think they should
be broken up i think they're too powerful me too yeah it's very dangerous right
well we don't have
any choice if you're gonna if you're a parent your kid is on social media you
don't have any choice the
kid doesn't have any choice he's going to be on a meta platform right and these
companies are so
powerful that they're able and they make so much money that they're able to
kind of weaponize
government we've had 40 congressional hearings talking about child safety we've
had zero laws
passed yeah and i think competition as a whole is a great way of bringing down
costs i think the best
way to handle inflation is competition and you have one company with 93 share
of search google
66 share of social meta 50 share of e-commerce two companies control 93 of ai
ai llms and the gpus that's open ai and nvidia so there's already monopolies
forming
an ai it's unbelievable here's australia wants to ban kids i saw this the other
day on 16 from social
media as world government seek to crack down on the addictive apps i think that
that's a great idea
i don't think that kids so and also especially if kids aren't going to be
protected like did you see
that moment where they had zuckerberg with all the parents of children who were
killed by adults on
facebook and they were allowed to contact them like why should an adult be
allowed to contact a child you
should easily if you have all the data you should easily know this is a child
and this is an adult
there's no reason for them to contact each other without going through the
parent there's
no reason anyone under the age of 14 should have a smartphone i mean i've said
this i think cinder pachai
and tim cook are basically crack dealers outside of junior high school no one
under the age of 14
should be on a smartphone could you have at 14 handled a casino a betting you
know a an imax theater
a a porn site in your pocket no all day long i can handle it at 34 37 right so
and then no i don't
think anyone should be on a social media app under the age of 16 and parents
are stepping in and a lot
of this again is because of the inspiration of my colleague jonathan height but
entire countries
are banning phones and social media there's just there's so much evidence
around the mental think
about what a place of perversion instagram begins with it encourages 15 year
old girls to pose
provocatively and sexualize themselves such that their peers and strange men
around the world can
evaluate and contact them imagine imagine there was a park and there were 15
year old girls and they said
to the park we'd really like it if you showed up and hauled tube tops and miniskirts
and then your peers get to
sit around you and comment out loud and strange men from anywhere can come and
comment and then
contact you would we allow that not a chance that's instagram why do we allow
that then like
is it do we expect our government to save us or who's or do we have to save
ourselves well i think
at the end of the day i think it's our fault we haven't voted in the people who
understand these
technologies are willing to stand up to these companies they're very savvy they
spend a lot of money on
lobbying and i also think in the back room they're probably doing deals around
national security to
help us kind of hunt down the bad guys i think it's a nuanced argument but at
the end of the day
our government has really let us down when we look back theo on this era around
big tech i think we're
going to regret the concentration of power the monopoly power the weapons
weaponization of some of our
elections some of the misinformation that's come out but more than anything we'll
look back on this era and
think how did we let this happen to our kids they don't have kids i should know
better my son developed
device addiction my kid hides in the bathroom so he can be on tick tock i don't
know what he's on on
tick tock there's been some instances of bullying both him being bullied and
bullying others and i think
we've probably not as bad as some households this is literally there is no
addiction in america 24
two-thirds of teens are on social media 24 qualify as addicts can you imagine
any we age gate pornography
the military motorcycles weapons but we don't age gate social media and 20 what
other substance what
other company could get away with getting two-thirds of kids on that substance
and then having a quarter
of them be identified clinically as addicts we wouldn't put up we wouldn't and
haven't put up
with it anywhere else but these guys are so smart have so many lobbyists there
are more full-time lobbyists
and there are representatives and senators that's just at amazon amazon has
more full-time paid lobbyists
living in dc than there are sitting u.s senators we've been overrun our
government's been overrun by money
and we haven't been able to vote in people that are able to stand up and pass
laws this is difficult
and complicated and these companies have taken advantage of also they have the
propaganda to
turn up the dials because they own the they own the the information that's
going out they can manage
god scott i don't even know if i can get out of this room today let's go to
whole foods
Thank you.