Host Corbin Barthold discusses the campaign by states like Arkansas, Texas, and Utah to age-gate the Internet. As Corbin explains, these states are taking aim at a number of recent Supreme Court decisions, including Reno v. ACLU (1997), Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004), Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011), and even (!?) 303 Creative v. Elenis (2023).

Corbin on the importance of Reno v. ACLU

Paul Matzko on the notorious “fairness doctrine”

Scholarly criticism of the “scarcity rationale”

Corbin on Texas’s H.B. 1181

FedSoc event on age-verification laws

Candeub, Morell, and Toscano in defense of age-verification laws

More from Candeub, Morell, and Toscano

More from Candeub

Jeff Kosseff (Naval Academy) joins the show to discuss his new book Liar in a Crowded Theater, a defense of your First Amendment right to speak falsely (sometimes!).

Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation

The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet

The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

Tech Policy Podcast #350: When the Government Yells at Social Media

Alicia Wanless (Carnegie Endowment) joins the show to discuss the links between information and technology, information competition through history, the need for a better understanding of information ecosystems, whether we’re in an information “civil war,” and much else besides.

There Is No Getting Ahead of Disinformation Without Moving Past It

The Astor Place Riot

Geoff Manne, president and founder of the International Center for Law & Economics, and host Corbin Barthold, internet policy counsel at TechFreedom, discuss the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon.

FTC Chair Lina Khan’s Mission to Destroy Amazon Will Harm Millions of Consumers

FTC v Amazon: Significant Burdens to Prove Relevant Markets and Net Consumer Harm

Tech Policy Podcast #353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial

Crackdowns on Encrypted Messaging Don’t ‘Help the Children’

The UK Online Safety Bill Must Not Violate Our Rights to Free Speech and Private Communication

UK Government ‘Concession’ on Breaking End-to-End Encryption in the Online Safety Act (Just Passed) Turns Out Not to Be One

Around the World, Threats to LGBTQ+ Speech Deepen

The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised

Faster, Please!

Power and Progress Is a Wrongheaded Critique of Tech Progress

Tech Policy Podcast #327: The Collapse of Complex Societies

The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation

Texas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not Exist

Leak of California Gun Owners’ Private Data Far Wider than Originally Reported

Republicans Can’t Decide If They Want Online Privacy or Not

Tech Policy Podcast #342: Save the Children (From State Social Media Laws)

Judge Mehta’s summary judgment order

Europe’s Antitrust Demagogues Shake Down Google

Content Moderation’s Legalism Problem

Collective Security in a Federated World

Tech Policy Podcast #345: Content Moderation Around the World

In Internet Speech Cases, SCOTUS Should Stick Up For Reno v. ACLU

Dissed Podcast: Lady Justice Isn’t Blind

Pacific Legal Foundation’s amicus brief in Loper Bright

TechFreedom’s amicus brief in Loper Bright

Chevron Is Dead, Long Live Chevron

Tech Policy Podcast #311: Administrative Law, and Why You Should Care