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Spencer Cox: “I believe these tech companies with trillion dollar market…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 51:12

We figured out a way out of that. When opioid companies did that to us, we're figuring our way out of that. And I'm just here to say that I believe these tech companies with trillion dollar market caps combined are doing the same thing [as tobacco and opioid companies]. the same thing that tobacco companies did, the same thing that the opioid companies did. And I think we have a moral responsibility to stand up, to hold them accountable, and to take back our free will. (51:12–51:19)

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Asserts that tech companies are acting similarly to tobacco and opioid companies in terms of addiction.

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