The controversial memo prepared by Rep. Nunes (R-CA) hasn’t left the newscycle since its release on February 2. Berin recorded this special episode from the Bay Area and is joined by Jennifer Granick, the “NBA All-Star of surveillance law,” and

#211: Warrantless Spying & Parallel Construction

1 Jan 5th, 2018 29m 24s

Four years after the Snowden disclosures, Congress continues to wrestle with surveillance issues. These include an ongoing reform battle over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—a major intelligence surveillance law that t

#372: Spacesuits!

7 days ago 36m 8s

Ryan Scirocco is the spacesuit business development lead at Collins Aerospace. Collins, an RTX business, is, along with its partners ILC Dover and Oceaneering, developing a new generation of spacesuits for NASA. Ryan discusses everything that g

#371: So You Want to Ban TikTok

17 days ago 44m 7s

Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses, in exquisite detail, the First Amendment problems with H.R. 7521, the House bill to ban TikTok.Topics include:Your First Amendment right to read crazy shitTikTok ban bros: throwing spaghetti at the wallF

#370: The SCOTUS Internet-Speech Law Apocalypse — With Daphne Keller

24 days ago 1h 1m

Daphne Keller (Stanford Cyber Policy Center) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the Supreme Court oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri (government jawboning of social media platforms) and the NetChoice cases (state content moderation laws

#369: AI and State Capacity

Mar 13th, 2024 50m 49s

Samuel Hammond (Foundation for American Innovation) discusses his essays on “AI and Leviathan.” Can government institutions cope with the coming technological disruption of AI?Topics include:- AI’s trajectory- New Deal agencies in an AI world-

#368: How the Government Gets Your Data

Mar 4th, 2024 39m 6s

Byron Tau (NOTUS) discusses his new book Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State.Topics include:Some history: four generations of data brokersThe continuing evolution of dat

#367: The White Pill

Feb 22nd, 2024 54m 49s

Brandon Gorrell (Pirate Wires) joins the show to discuss The White Pill, his optimistic (and mind-blowing) newsletter covering “the frontiers of tech, science, space, and more.”Topics include: Combatting the overwhelming negativity on social me

#366: Tech, Gender, and Freedom

Feb 14th, 2024 52m 24s

It’s a big picture episode! One day (soon?), technology will enable convenient, low-cost gender transition. What does that say about human “nature”? What are the implications for society? What are (some) people getting so upset about? Jason Kuz

#365: Is the Internet Killing Culture? (No. Don’t Be Stupid.)

Feb 5th, 2024 1h 1m

Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Leigh Beadon (Techdirt) join the show to discuss their new report on the Internet’s (beneficial!) effect on art, entertainment, and culture.The Sky Is Rising: 2024 EditionRather than Destroying Culture, the Internet

#364: Will No One Rid Us of This Warrantless Surveillance?

Jan 24th, 2024 46m 5s

Liza Goitein (Brennan Center) joins the show to discuss the FISA Section 702 surveillance program. Why is it so contentious? Why is it such a hot topic now? Why and how should it be changed? And what does the Fourth Amendment have to say about

#363: AI and Elections

Jan 11th, 2024 45m 32s

TechFreedom’s Ari Cohn and Corbin Barthold discuss whether AI is going to spark an “infocalypse,” bring about the “collapse of reality,” and destroy our elections. Is AI about to “flood” our “screens” with “misinformation” that’s “dangerous to

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From the Vault: The Revolt of the Public — With Martin Gurri

Dec 28th, 2023 42m 7s

From February 16, 2021 (Episode 284): Martin Gurri (Mercatus Center) discusses his book The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New MillenniumReality

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From the Vault: Responding to the Broadband Populists

Dec 19th, 2023 1h 1m

From March 2, 2022 (Episode 313): Robert Atkinson (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) discusses the leftwing push to turn broadband into a heavily regulated utility.Anticorporate Broadband Populists’ Real Agenda: Destroy the Curr

#362: Common Carrier Rules, the Tech Stack, and You

Dec 11th, 2023 1h 1m

Blake Reid (Colorado Law) and Berin Szóka (TechFreedom) join the show to discuss the constitutional and policy implications of applying common carrier rules at different layers of the “tech stack.” Should broadband providers be forced to carry

#361: AI, Art, Copyright, and the Life of Brian

Nov 29th, 2023 55m 29s

Brian Frye (Kentucky Law) joins the show to say bananas stuff about artificial intelligence, the history of authorship, the economics of copyright, why we’re all misunderstanding plagiarism, the mysteries of free will, and more.Apologia Pro Pla

#360: Red States vs. Every SCOTUS Internet Precedent

Nov 17th, 2023 57m

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), Ashcrof

#359: Your Right to Lie — With Jeff Kosseff

Nov 9th, 2023 49m 41s

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 MisinformationThe Tw

#358: Information Animals Fighting Information Wars

Nov 1st, 2023 52m 56s

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

#357: The Amazon Antitrust Case

Oct 20th, 2023 1h 9m

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

#356: The UK Targets End-to-End Encryption

Oct 9th, 2023 44m 37s

Crackdowns on Encrypted Messaging Don’t ‘Help the Children’The UK Online Safety Bill Must Not Violate Our Rights to Free Speech and Private CommunicationUK Government ‘Concession’ on Breaking End-to-End Encryption in the Online Safety Act (Just

#355: Conservative Futurism

Oct 2nd, 2023 47m 26s

The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedFaster, Please!Power and Progress Is a Wrongheaded Critique of Tech ProgressTech Policy Podcast #327: The Collapse of Complex Societies

#354: Online Age Verification (Sucks)

Sep 21st, 2023 48m 31s

The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification LegislationTexas Legislature Convinced First Amendment Simply Does Not ExistLeak of California Gun Owners’ Private Data Far Wider than Originally ReportedRepublicans Can’t Decide If Th

#353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial

Sep 11th, 2023 1h 3m

Judge Mehta’s summary judgment orderEurope’s Antitrust Demagogues Shake Down Google

#352: Yoel Roth on the Future of Content Moderation

Aug 30th, 2023 58m 36s

Content Moderation’s Legalism ProblemCollective Security in a Federated WorldTech Policy Podcast #345: Content Moderation Around the WorldIn Internet Speech Cases, SCOTUS Should Stick Up For Reno v. ACLU