Tech policy is at the center of the hottest debates in American law and politics. On the Tech Policy Podcast, host Corbin Barthold discusses the latest developments with some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, academics, and more.
Richard Morrison (Competitive Enterprise Institute) joins the show, in a crossover episode with the Free the Economy podcast.
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It’s the episode you’ve been waiting for: TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold and Ari Cohn talk about pornography and free expression.
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Tech Policy Podcast #360: Red States vs. Every SCOTUS Internet Precedent
A Reagan Judge, The First Amendment, And The Eternal War Against Pornography
Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist
Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that goes into keeping people alive in a freezing zero-gravity vacuum far outside the biosphere.
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Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses, in exquisite detail, the First Amendment problems with H.R. 7521, the House bill to ban TikTok.
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A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill
Tech Policy Podcast #344: TikTok and the First Amendment
Tech Policy Podcast #368: How the Government Gets Your Data
Tech Policy Podcast #289: The History, Use, and Abuse of the Fairness Doctrine
Daphne Keller (Stanford Cyber Policy Center) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the Supreme Court oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri (government jawboning of social media platforms) and the NetChoice cases (state content moderation laws).
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The Lies the 5th Circuit Told You About the Government ‘Pressuring Social Media to Censor’
Tech Policy Podcast #350: When the Government Yells at Social Media
FAQs About the NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 1
FAQs About the NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 2
The Long Reach of Taamneh: Carriage and Removal Requirements for Internet Platforms
God Help Us, but Brett Kavanaugh Could Save the First Amendment
Samuel Hammond (Foundation for American Innovation) discusses his essays on “AI and Leviathan.” Can government institutions cope with the coming technological disruption of AI?
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- AI’s trajectory
- New Deal agencies in an AI world
- Public Choice Theory vs. the AI juggernaut
- Uber and micro-regime changes
- Government as a network of smart contracts
- Techno-totalitarianism vs. techno-feudalism
- AI Renaissance city states?
- Collapse as a feature, not a bug
- A techno-optimist’s revealed preferences
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AI: Dumb human to Einstein in a heartbeat
Byron Tau (NOTUS) discusses his new book Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State.
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Brandon Gorrell (Pirate Wires) joins the show to discuss The White Pill, his optimistic (and mind-blowing) newsletter covering “the frontiers of tech, science, space, and more.”
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It’s a big picture episode! One day (soon?), technology will enable convenient, low-cost gender transition. What does that say about human “nature”? What are the implications for society? What are (some) people getting so upset about? Jason Kuznicki (TechFreedom) joins the show to discuss.
Gender as Essence and as Economic Choice
Cosmos + Taxis issue on gender (including articles by Nathan P. Goodman and by Akiva Malamet and Mikayla Novak)
Pacification (Jason’s Substack)
Tech Policy Podcast #327: The Collapse of Complex Societies (2022 Big Picture Episode)
Tech Policy Podcast #301: The Realignment (2021 Big Picture Episode)
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Leigh Beadon (Techdirt) join the show to discuss their new report on the Internet’s (beneficial!) effect on art, entertainment, and culture.
The Sky Is Rising: 2024 Edition
Rather than Destroying Culture, the Internet Has Saved the Content Industries
Liza Goitein (Brennan Center) joins the show to discuss the FISA Section 702 surveillance program. Why is it so contentious? Why is it such a hot topic now? Why and how should it be changed? And what does the Fourth Amendment have to say about it? Liza explains!
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): A Resource Page
How Congress Learned to Live with Warrantless Surveillance (for Now)
Tech Policy Podcast #339: Will Tech Swallow the Fourth Amendment?
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