Tech Policy Podcast
1) 431: Barrett’s Moody Concurrence: Oddly Popular, Wholly Wrong
Host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) deconstructs Justice Barrett’s surprisingly influential concurrence in Moody v. NetChoice. Or: Why the First Amendment protects algorithms and AI. Links: Moody v....Show More
2) 430: Social Media on Trial
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...Show More
3) 429: AI and Jobs
Brent Orrell (American Enterprise Institute) discusses the future of work in a world of genius machines. Links: De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy (https://tinyurl.com/2kwbrt2s) What Anthropic’s Int...Show More
4) 428: New Right Antitrust: Culture War Over Consumer Welfare
Thom Lambert (Mizzou Law) discusses the Trump II administration’s new right antitrust regulators. Stay calm everyone, they just want the discretion to reward friends and punish enemies. Links: ‘New ...Show More
5) 427: More State Tech Policy Than You Can Poke a Stick At
Scott Babwah Brennan is the director of NYU’s Center on Technology Policy. Scott and his team have just released their 2025 State Technology Policy Report—a thorough and thoughtful survey and analysis...Show More
6) New Year’s Message / From the Vault: Age Verification
Host Corbin Barthold offers some end-of-year reflections on the moral panic over kids’ use of social media and AI. Then we revisit Episode 405 (“No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been ‘Solved’,” A...Show More
7) 426: Copyright v. The Internet
Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley) discusses the Supreme Court oral argument in Cox v. Sony, a copyright case that could have major ramifications for the internet. Links: Cox Communications, Inc. v. Son...Show More
8) 425: Social Media Is Always Changing
Corbin heads over to the Techdirt Podcast, hosted by the one and only Mike Masnick, for a wide-ranging discussion about the state of social media.
9) 424: Meta Beats the Antitrust Regulators
Geoff Manne (ICLE) returns! He and Corbin break down a judge’s ruling (politely) laughing the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta out of court. Topics include: - The bizarro world of antitrust tras...Show More
10) 423: Free Speech Hypocrites
Ari Cohn (FIRE) and host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) survey the Trump administration’s many attacks on the First Amendment. Topics include: - Law firms you should no longer hire - Political oppone...Show More