The executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech Decoder with Nilay Patel

Cindy Cohn is the executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF. If you’re an internet user of a certain age like me, you know the EFF as the premiere civil liberties group for the internet. The EFF has fought pitched battles against things like government surveillance, digital rights management for music and movies, and government speech regulations that would violate the First Amendment. These fights were important, and shaped the internet as we know it today.

Links
Electronic Frontier Foundation
How to fix the Internet: Podcast by the EFF
How the EU is fighting tech giants with Margrethe Vestager
Apple pushes back on iPhone order, says FBI is seeking ‘dangerous power'
Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial
Viacom vs YouTube
Texas passes law that bans kicking people off social media based on ‘viewpoint’
Santa Clara Principles
Carterfone
Decoder interview with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Facebook v. Power Ventures

Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/22805290

Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.  
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