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Tech Policy Podcast

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.

  1. 389: The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform — With Daphne Keller

    7 NOV

    389: The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform — With Daphne Keller

    Daphne Keller (Stanford Cyber Policy Center) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) have a wide-ranging conversation about the impact of the EU’s Digital Services Act on content moderation, the costs and benefits of platform transparency, the pervasiveness of complexity, the work of James C. Scott, Germans’ abiding thirst for data, the Burmese heroin trade, and more. For more, see Daphne’s recent article in Lawfare, “The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform.” Topics include: - Big Tech and the DSA - Daphne the investigative reporter - A court case for every comment removal - The EU: bean counter of human dignity - James C. Scott appreciation day - What does the DSA mean for the fediverse? - Capitalism as a force for quantification - Daphne’s metaphysics Links: The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform (https://tinyurl.com/4ke3d3yw) The Humpty Dance (https://tinyurl.com/32mvj7kv)

    1h 2m
  2. 388: The Abundance Agenda — With Marshall Kosloff

    31 OCT

    388: The Abundance Agenda — With Marshall Kosloff

    Marshall Kosloff (The Realignment) discusses the abundance agenda—what it is, what it could achieve, how it applies in various policy areas, how to build a political coalition around it, how to implement it, and more. Topics include: - Abundance of what? - Energy policy: wtf is going on - Fixing defense procurement - Fixing state capacity - Building an abundance coalition - Culture war forever? - Abundance after the 2024 election Links: The Realignment (https://tinyurl.com/c6f5wv5v) Arsenal of Democracy (https://tinyurl.com/3a5phwd6) The Harris Broadband Rollout Has Been a Fiasco (https://tinyurl.com/298khahk) The White House Bet Big on Intel. Will It Backfire? (https://tinyurl.com/hdnt4vpd) (Still) Against Degrowth (https://tinyurl.com/mr36sn6r) Tech Policy Podcast 381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith (https://tinyurl.com/3we33yrt)

    1h 3m
  3. From the Vault: Progress — With Alec Stapp

    25 OCT · BONUS

    From the Vault: Progress — With Alec Stapp

    From April 12, 2022 (Episode 317): Alec Stapp discusses the work, goals, and philosophy of his innovative new think tank, Institute for Progress. Topics include: - Metascience: the key field you’ve never heard of - Tech industry 🤝 policy wonks - Alec’s theory of change - How to evangelize for progress - Baby making music (j/k not j/k) - The need for an abundance agenda Links: Institute for Progress (https://ifp.org/) Tech Policy Podcast 381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith (https://tinyurl.com/3we33yrt) Tech Policy Podcast 327: The Collapse of Complex Societies — With Joseph Tainter (https://tinyurl.com/48v8d6u9)

    52 min
  4. 387: Crypto Regulation — With Paul Grewal

    17 OCT

    387: Crypto Regulation — With Paul Grewal

    Paul Grewal (Coinbase) takes us on a deep dive into all aspects of crypto regulation, litigation, and legislation. A crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series. Topics include: - The elevator pitch for crypto - Securities law: it’s not the New Deal anymore - The inconsistent SEC - SEC v. Coinbase / Coinbase v. SEC - Operation Choke Point 2.0 - The need for crypto legislation - Central bank digital currencies (are dumb) - Satoshi Nakamoto: a $68 billion mystery Links: Keep Crypto Free (https://tinyurl.com/yjcv3c36) Coinbase’s Petition for Rulemaking to the SEC (https://tinyurl.com/yck9echm) Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, and Crypto Is in Its Crosshairs (https://tinyurl.com/44jz2afv) Tech Policy Podcast 312: Web3 (https://tinyurl.com/2t6yuf5p)

    53 min
  5. 386: Major Questions About Major Questions

    3 OCT

    386: Major Questions About Major Questions

    Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) provides a guided tour of the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine. Topics include: - Major questions: an introduction - No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative - Is major questions new? - Stories we tell about Congress - Welcome to the kludgeocracy - Politics vs. expertise - The Supreme Court cannot save us Links: West Virginia v. EPA: Sound and Fury, Signifying What? (https://tinyurl.com/3ttysrjx) Tech Policy Podcast 311: Administrative Law, and Why You Should Care (https://tinyurl.com/bdvnynbc)

    1 hr
  6. 385: AI Snake Oil

    23 SEPT

    385: AI Snake Oil

    Sayash Kapoor (Princeton) discusses the incoherence of precise p(doom) predictions and the pervasiveness of AI “snake oil.” Check out his and Arvind Narayanan’s new book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference. Topics include: - What’s a prediction, really? - p(doom): your guess is as good as anyone’s - Freakishly chaotic creatures (us, that is) - AI can’t predict the impact of AI - Gaming AI with invisible ink - Life is luck—let’s act like it - Superintelligence (us, that is) - The bitter lesson - AI danger: sweat the small stuff Links: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference (https://tinyurl.com/4v3byma9) AI Existential Risk Probabilities Are Too Unreliable to Inform Policy (https://tinyurl.com/fdrcu5s6) AI Snake Oil (Substack) (https://tinyurl.com/2chwfrka)

    54 min
  7. 384: The Facebook Antitrust Case

    9 SEPT

    384: The Facebook Antitrust Case

    Geoff Manne (International Center for Law & Economics) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the many, many flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta (Facebook). A crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series. Topics include: - The ontology of Facebook - Social networking: it’s not 2008 anymore - The FTC’s made-up market - The WhatsApp Catch-22 - Has Facebook been enshittified? - Product design by government: bad idea! - Growing startups: hard, actually Links: The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail (https://tinyurl.com/k988vjn8) Tech Policy Podcast 357: The Amazon Antitrust Case (https://tinyurl.com/2s4xz9xs) Tech Policy Podcast 353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial (https://tinyurl.com/mryvmrce) Tech Policy Podcast 302: Epic v. Apple (https://tinyurl.com/39chu42b)

    54 min
  8. 383: SCOTUS Internet Non-Law

    27 AUG

    383: SCOTUS Internet Non-Law

    TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Ari Cohn, and Santana Boulton partake in a summer doldrums bitchfest about recent and upcoming Supreme Court internet speech cases. Topics include: - SCOTUS ducks in Moody v. NetChoice - Hey, let’s *not* reward bad-faith legislating - Justice Kagan: progressive traitor (and we love it) - Justice Alito is mad - What’s next for online speech? - SCOTUS ducks in Murthy v. Missouri - Judge Terry Doughty: incompetent boob - The censorship industrial complex that wasn’t - SCOTUS takes up Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton - Texas tries to age-gate XXX - Is porn getting more extreme? - The seven dirty words Links: Tech Policy Podcast 350: When the Government Yells at Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/5c7wmuj4) Tech Policy Podcast 373: Porn and the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/2p86rm47) Project 2025 Co-Author Caught Admitting Secret Conservative Plan to Ban Porn (https://tinyurl.com/4vmmy3rr)

    1h 18m
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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.

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    TechFreedom
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2024
  • Episodes
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