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

Ari Cohn, Free Speech Counsel at TechFreedom, joins the show to discuss Missouri v. Biden, the tricky relationship between the First Amendment and government jawboning of social media platforms, and the unhinged discourse around social media “censorship.”

Links:

Judge Doughty’s opinion

The Future of Online Speech Shouldn’t Belong to One Trump-Appointed Judge in Louisiana

If You Believe In Free Speech, The GOP’s “Weaponization” Subcommittee Is Not Your Friend

Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media?

Trumpism on the Bench?

The Internet Speech Case That the Supreme Court Can’t Dodge

Eric Berger’s Ars Technica profile

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Jim Dunstan’s new paper on space regulation

Jim’s recent appearance before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

The ending of Nebo Zovyot (“The Sky Beckons”) (1959)