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CFRC Podcast Network
Blue Miaoran Dong (Carleton-PhD) - Studying the similarities and differences between tech platforms and privatized infrastructure.
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Although tech platform companies often claim in their advertisements and public relations efforts that they represent the public interest, as private companies, their primary goal is to maximize their own profits. Equating private interests with public interests not only overlooks the issues arising from the increasingly blurred lines between the two but also worsens the damage that conflicts of interest can cause to sustainable public systems.

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