Views on First

Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
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Views on First

“Views on First” is the Knight First Amendment Institute’s flagship podcast. Each season, we invite leading legal scholars, practitioners, tech policy experts, and others to join us in conversations about some of the most pressing First Amendment issues in the ever-shifting expressive landscape of the digital age.  “Views on First: Season 1” won a 2024 Anthem Award Silver Medal and 2023 Signal Listener’s Choice Award and a Signal Silver Medal.

  1. Speech & the Border E5: The Free Speech Costs of Banning TikTok

    12/18/2024

    Speech & the Border E5: The Free Speech Costs of Banning TikTok

    From the first Trump administration to the Biden administration, the fight to ban TikTok has cut across conventional partisan and ideological lines. In this episode, host Ramya Krishnan explores the ban as an affront to our First Amendment right to receive information and ideas from abroad. Georgetown Law professor and tech regulation expert Anupam Chander highlights the government’s glaring lack of evidence that TikTok poses a national security threat. Signal Foundation President Meredith Wh...

    34 min
  2. Speech & the Border E4: Spyware—The Authoritarians' Favorite Tool

    12/11/2024

    Speech & the Border E4: Spyware—The Authoritarians' Favorite Tool

    It's not new for repressive governments to go after journalists. What is new is the ease with which they can do so — by turning journalists’ own phones against them. Host Alex Abdo explores the pernicious commercial spyware industry, and how repressive governments around the world use spyware to target journalists and activists. John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at The Citizen Lab, speaks about the technical capacities of commercial spyware products to infect a device without the user’s k...

    28 min
  3. Speech & the Border E3: Singled Out & Searched

    12/04/2024

    Speech & the Border E3: Singled Out & Searched

    Citizen or not—anyone can be searched at the border. Border agents may search messages, photos, and other intimate data on your personal phone, tablet, or other devices. Host Ramya Krishnan hears from documentary filmmaker Akram Shibly about his experience being detained and having his phone searched—twice—by officials at the U.S.-Canadian border. Knight Institute attorney Stephanie Krent addresses the constitutionality of such searches and why warrants should be required.Views on First is br...

    34 min
  4. Speech & the Border E2: The Digital Surveillance Dragnet

    11/20/2024

    Speech & the Border E2: The Digital Surveillance Dragnet

    Dating back to the Obama administration, the U.S. government has been using its authority over the border to justify the surveillance of visitors’ and immigrants’ social media accounts. Host Anna Diakun explores the chilling effect this digital surveillance has on the speech and associations of millions of people around the world. Guest Faiza Patel, Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses not only the legal concerns raised by t...

    29 min
  5. Speech & the Border E1: What are we so afraid of?

    11/13/2024

    Speech & the Border E1: What are we so afraid of?

    From the war on anarchism to President Trump’s extreme vetting policies, the U.S. government’s practice of using the border as a justification to exclude ideas considered “dangerous” is as American as apple pie. In the first episode of “Views on First: Speech & the Border,” host George Wang invites lawyer and historian Julia Rose Kraut to explore the history of ideological exclusion and the government’s authority to bar individuals from the country on the basis of their speech, beliefs, a...

    51 min
  6. A Preview of Views on First: Speech & the Border

    10/24/2024

    A Preview of Views on First: Speech & the Border

    We’ve all been hearing a lot about “the border”—in news headlines, candidates’ speeches, and political debates. On our third season of “Views on First: Speech & the Border” we examine the frontiers of censorship and surveillance. Today, the U.S. government uses its authority over the border to justify the exclusion of certain people and ideas, the surveillance of social media, the warrantless search of travelers’ laptops and cellphones, and the imposition of limits on access to foreign co...

    4 min
  7. War & Speech E9: The University’s Role in Political and Social Action

    06/05/2024

    War & Speech E9: The University’s Role in Political and Social Action

    Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman talks with Jameel Jaffer about whether and when universities should issue statements about social and political issues, and about the pros and cons of institutional neutrality.Views on First is brought to you by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Please subscribe and leave a review. We’d love to know what you think. To learn more about the Knight Institute, visit our website, knightcolumbia.org, and follow us on social media.

    39 min
  8. War & Speech E8: Anti-Discrimination Law and the Protests on Campus

    05/22/2024

    War & Speech E8: Anti-Discrimination Law and the Protests on Campus

    Cornell Law School’s Michael Dorf talks with Jameel Jaffer about how federal anti-discrimination law is shaping universities’ responses to pro-Palestinian protests on campus, and about the tensions between anti-discrimination law and the First Amendment.Views on First is brought to you by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Please subscribe and leave a review. We’d love to know what you think. To learn more about the Knight Institute, visit our website, knightcolumbi...

    41 min
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“Views on First” is the Knight First Amendment Institute’s flagship podcast. Each season, we invite leading legal scholars, practitioners, tech policy experts, and others to join us in conversations about some of the most pressing First Amendment issues in the ever-shifting expressive landscape of the digital age.  “Views on First: Season 1” won a 2024 Anthem Award Silver Medal and 2023 Signal Listener’s Choice Award and a Signal Silver Medal.

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  • Creator
    Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    21
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    Explicit
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    © 2024 Views on First
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