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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Well, we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about it for the last several years about what appears

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Speaker 1: the part of the U S regulators and US lawmakers

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Speaker 1: against big tech here. Historically they've taken a very light touch,

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Speaker 1: but the scenes in recent years a little bit more

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Speaker 1: heavier Handless check in on that story, Jen Ry, senior

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Speaker 1: litigation annalyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, joins us here in the

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studio. So, Jen, again, it seems like,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's definitely been a heavier hand here by

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Speaker 1: a lot of these regulators, and right now they're looking

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Speaker 1: at the apps. I'm thinking about the app store, the

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Speaker 1: Google App Store, the Apple App Store. Uh, that's a

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Speaker 1: You know, It's funny it we have been talking about

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Speaker 1: it was really all about Google and Facebook in the beginning,

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Speaker 1: and then suddenly, you know, there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: focus on Apple and Google and their app stores and

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Speaker 1: their their walled gardens, so to speak, for their mobile phones.

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Speaker 1: What this UM Open Apps Market Act is looking to

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Speaker 1: other words, you can only a user can only download

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Speaker 1: You have to use the payment systems. If you buy

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Speaker 1: also there may be some use of the data of

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Speaker 1: that are also within their own app stores. So what

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Speaker 1: Congress is trying to do is break that down and

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Speaker 1: Google and Apple and Apple charge app developers, and seemingly

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Speaker 1: Do these kind of UM regulations also govern physical stores.

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Speaker 1: For example, if I opened uh chain of drug stores

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Speaker 1: access to my data, etcetera. This particular regulation would not

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Speaker 1: because it defines covered companies, and really it's defined so

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Speaker 1: when we don't regulate other industries in that in this manner,

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Speaker 1: And we haven't really regulated other industries in this manner

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Speaker 1: And so I think for that reason, you know, I

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Speaker 1: do think that there will be some pushback. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: concerned about what they view as censorship, that the power

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Speaker 1: All right, jen great having you on, and I hope

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Speaker 1: what you do. Jennifer E. Is a senior litigation analyst

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Speaker 1: attempts to reduce the power of Apple and Google and

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Speaker 1: one of the silver linings of this pandemic is just

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Speaker 1: Let's check in with one of those companies, Florian Brand,

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Speaker 1: CEO and co founder of biotech company at Thai based

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Speaker 1: your company. What is a thaie focusing on right now.

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Speaker 1: Sure and thanks for having us UM today. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: Um SO it ties the clinical stage U bio pharma company,

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Speaker 1: so basically a drop development company developing novative novel trements

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Speaker 1: look at previously stigmatized compounds such as psychedelic compounds to

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Speaker 1: So when you talk, I mean there has been for

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Speaker 1: Florian Brand. He's the CEO and co founder of biopharmaceutical

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Speaker 1: company a Taie symbol a t AI based in Germany.

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Speaker 1: They're focusing on the psychedelic side of the market and

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Speaker 1: stocks up about three percent today. Uh they went public

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Speaker 1: to r J. Gall and asked that question. He's a

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. Bill Ferries is National Security Team

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