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The Techdirt Podcast, hosted by Michael Masnick.

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The Techdirt Podcast, hosted by Michael Masnick.

    Cognitive Liberty Is The End Goal Of Decentralization

    Cognitive Liberty Is The End Goal Of Decentralization

    Last year in September, we released a cross-post episode of Mike's appearance on the DWeb Decoded podcast with Danny O'Brien. If you listened to that episode, you know that Mike and Danny go way back, and Danny played an important role in the founding of Techdirt. This week, we've got the inverse counterpart to that episode, with Danny joining Mike here on the Techdirt podcast for a discussion about decentralization and "cognitive liberty" (and a bunch of other topics).

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TikTok Ban (Teaser)

    Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TikTok Ban (Teaser)

    Check out Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike Masnick's brand new podcast with Ben Whitelaw, creator of the Everything in Moderation newsletter.

    In this teaser excerpt from the debut episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike and Ben discuss the US bill that aims to ban TikTok, or at least force ByteDance to divest from it.

    Listen to the whole episode, covering all the week's biggest news in online speech, by visiting ctrlaltspeech.com or subscribing to Ctrl-Alt-Speech on your podcast platform of choice!

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    More: https://www.ctrlaltspeech.com/

    • 13 min
    Gaming Like It's 1928!

    Gaming Like It's 1928!

    As is tradition, now that we've announced the winners of our latest public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1928, it's time for a special episode of the podcast taking a closer look at them. Just like in past years, Mike is joined by myself and our game design partner Randy Lubin to discuss our thoughts on the winners in all six categories, and a bunch of other great games that didn't quite make the cut.

    • 43 min
    Checking In On Bluesky With Jay Graber

    Checking In On Bluesky With Jay Graber

    Anyone who follows Techdirt knows we're very interested in the progress of Bluesky, the decentralized social network that embraces our concept of protocols over platforms. Bluesky recently ended its invite-only beta and opened its doors to the public, so it seems like a great time for a check-in, and who better to check in with than Bluesky CEO Jay Graber? Jay joins us on this week's episode for a discussion about Bluesky's progress and what the future holds.

    • 57 min
    KOSA Isn't Just Wrong About The Internet, It's Wrong About Child Safety

    KOSA Isn't Just Wrong About The Internet, It's Wrong About Child Safety

    In our coverage of the problems with KOSA and other legislative pushes to "protect the children" online, we usually (for obvious reasons) come at the subject from the technology side, and look at all the ways these laws misunderstand the internet. But that's not their only flaw: these proposals also tend to lack any real understanding of child safety. Maureen Flatley is someone who has been vocal from the other side, having covered child safety issues for about as long as we've covered tech, and she joins us on this week's episode to discuss how KOSA and its ilk aren't rooted in what we really know about keeping kids safe.

    • 49 min
    How To Actually Help Kids Online

    How To Actually Help Kids Online

    As we've written about repeatedly, efforts to protect kids online and improve their mental health at the moment all seem to be focused on taking social media away from them, even though all the evidence suggests this would be harmful, not helpful. Today, we're joined by Rob Morris, who aims to take a different approach with his online mental health service Koko, for a discussion about how the real way to help kids is to meet them where they're at.

    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
48 Ratings

48 Ratings

Dan1777999877 ,

Love it!

It’s obvious Mike puts extraordinary effort in covering salient topics and finding guests that are authentic and truly care about being a positive force in this space - the insights they bring to bear are still mind-blowing every. single. time.

jarnold palmer ,

Good niche podcast

Episodes either go really deep into a specific topic or introduce a niche subgenre of tech policy. Mike seems weirdly uncomfortable with hosting at times, but he is pretty thoughtful.

Sir_Prometheus. ,

Literally does not understand tech or the law

Opines CONSTANTLY on the first amendment, understands nothing of how that works. Doesn’t understand how IP law works, nor CDA 230. Worthless site and worthless commenters.

Generally a politics blog pretending to be tech related.

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