Judge Glock (Manhattan Institute) joins the show to discuss the past, present, and future of data center construction in the United States.

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The Surprising Heart of the Data-Center Boom

Dr. Mekhi Dhesi is a space industry executive at Slingshot Aerospace and a space communicator. She joins the show to discuss orbital mechanics, rocket science, black holes, the Fermi paradox, and more. Follow her on Instagram @cosmic_mekhi!

Host Corbin Barthold heads to New York to speak at FIRE’s Free Speech Future event series. The panel features Kmele Foster (The Fifth Column), Nico Perrino (FIRE), and Prof. Christopher Ferguson (Stetson University).

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Free Speech Future: Episode III – Cycles of Censorship: Emerging Technologies

Free Speech Future

From January 9, 2022 (Episode 310): Daphne Keller discusses her paper “Amplification and Its Discontents” with Corbin Barthold and Ari Cohn.

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Amplification and Its Discontents: Why Regulating the Reach of Online Content Is Hard

Tech Policy Podcast 389: The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform

Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff discuss their fantastic new book, The Future of Free Speech.

The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom

TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Santana Boulton, and Andy Jung discuss whether AI promotes free speech, why AI outputs are protected free expression, why Anthropic should win its First Amendment lawsuit against the Department of War, and much else besides.

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AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Ban Kids From Using Chatbots

Heaven’s Gate—How and When It May Be Entered

Our host, Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom), speaks on a panel at State of the Net with Joel Thayer (Digital Progress Institute) and Ashkhen Kazaryan (The Future of Free Speech), and Luke Hogg (Foundation for American Innovation). They discuss how the First Amendment should work in a world of algorithms and AI.

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AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence (Corbin’s new paper) (https://tinyurl.com/mw5vbuzf)

State of the Net 2026

Tech Podcast Policy 373: Porn and the First Amendment

Tech Podcast Policy 417: Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Is Wreaking Havoc

Host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) deconstructs Justice Barrett’s surprisingly influential concurrence in Moody v. NetChoice. Or: Why the First Amendment protects algorithms and AI. 

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Moody v. NetChoice

The Post-human First Amendment

Tech Policy Podcast 286: How Algorithms Can Fight Extremism

Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad

A landmark bellwether trial in Los Angeles is testing whether Instagram and YouTube can be blamed for teen addiction and mental health problems. Clay Calvert (American Enterprise Institute) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) review the many problems with letting plaintiffs’ lawyers demagogue social media platforms in front of a jury.

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Social Media Addiction Lawsuits: The Deceptively Flawed Tobacco Analogy

Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media

Brent Orrell (American Enterprise Institute) discusses the future of work in a world of genius machines.

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De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy 

What Anthropic’s Internal Study Suggests About the Future of Work

Did the Canaries Just Die?

AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright