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Techdirt — 459 episodes
How To Stop Good Companies From Going Bad
Preserving The Web In The Age Of AI
Infrastructure For The New Private Internet
The Dangers Of Product Design Liability For Social Media
Transaction Denied
The Future Of Section 230
Mike And Karl Talk AI
The Vision For The Decentralized Internet
Answering Your Questions
The Supreme Court's Internet Cases
Does AI Remove Or Provide User Agency?
A Manifesto To Build A Better Internet
Could News Publishers Embrace AI Via An API
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Saving Democracy From Fascism
Social Media Is Always Changing
Venture Capital Is Eating The World
An Insider's View Of Decentralized Social Media
The New Generation Of Independent Journalists
DuckDuckGo Wants You To Have More Control Over AI
The Fictional Censorship Cinematic Universe
The Many Problems With The FTC's Pornhub Settlement
Copyright And The First Amendment Collide At The Supreme Court
The Eternal September
Blacksky Demonstrates The Promise Of Open Social Media Protocols
Why Data Portability Is Crucial For The AI Future
The Media Capitulation Index
What's Next For Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Reclaiming The Internet
A History Of Techdirt, And More
The Political Power Of Mockery
The Fracturing Internet
The FTC's Quixotic Social Media Inquiry
Blitzscaling For Tyrants
The Elonification Of Government
The Rise Of The Open Social Web
How Tariffs Are Impacting One Small Business
The Problems With Age Verification
Disruptive Tech Solutions For Reproductive Health
Ron Wyden On Chutzpah
Chris Hayes On How Attention Ate The World
A New Podcast All About Section 230
Murder The Truth
What Twitter Teaches Us About DOGE
Copyright Versus AI: Hollywood & Creators
Brendan Carr Is A Threat To Free Speech
One Billion Users
Regulating Speech In An Age Of Fake News
From The Streisand Effect To Bluesky
Useful Lessons From 'Slow Social Media'
The Story Of Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover
How Fact Checking Fails
AI As A Tool For Writing, Not A Replacement
The NCMEC Board Is Captured & Failing, Says Former Member
Link Taxes Won't Save Journalism
The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
Ctrl-Alt-Speech Minisode: The Supreme Court’s NetChoice Ruling
Raising Kids In A Digital World
What An Actual Expert Thinks About Kids & Social Media
A Primer On Child Online Safety Legislation
The Importance Of Section 230 For Online Communities
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deepfake It Till You Make It (Teaser)
Platform Moderation Or Individual Control?
Generative AI Is Doomed
The Challenges Facing NCMEC's CyberTipline
Talking TikTok
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Combating Sextortion (Teaser)
Copyright Conundrum
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Facebook's New AI Content Policy (Teaser)
Abolishing Section 230 Would Abolish Wikipedia
Democratic Design For Online Spaces
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Most Moderated Word on Meta (Teaser)
How Important Will The Murthy Case Be?
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Elon Musk & Stonetoss (Teaser)
Cognitive Liberty Is The End Goal Of Decentralization
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TikTok Ban (Teaser)
Gaming Like It's 1928!
Checking In On Bluesky With Jay Graber
KOSA Isn't Just Wrong About The Internet, It's Wrong About Child Safety
How To Actually Help Kids Online
Is the Internet Killing Culture? (No. Don’t Be Stupid.)
The Data Transfer Initiative After One Year
Protocols, Not Platforms
Beeper And The Power Of Protocols
Could A Design Code Help Social Media Serve Society Better?
Content Moderation Games
Could Engineer Licensing Make AI Safer?
Decentralizing Innovation
AI Is Going To Change More Than You Realize
Trust & Safety In Wartime
Your Face Belongs To Us, With Kashmir Hill
Trust & Safety Tycoon
Open Sourcing The Trust & Safety Toolkit
Liability, Speech & Marketplaces
Link Taxes Are (Still) Bad
Thinking About Decentralization
Social Media & Mental Health
Gigi Sohn On Community Broadband
The YouTube Effect, With Alex Winter
Can Interoperability Be Mandated?
Red Team Blues, Part Two (With Cory Doctorow)
Social Media In Chaos
Red Team Blues, Part One
FutureCast
The Reddit Meltdown
Decentralizing Content Moderation
Moderator Mayhem!
Utah's War On Porn
Save The Children (From State Social Media Laws)
The Data Transfer Initiative
Link Taxes Are Bad, Canada Edition
Sci-Fi & Silicon Valley
Why Is Congress So Wrong About Section 230?
Gaming Like It's 1927
The Supreme Court Takes On 230
The DoNotPay Story, With Kathryn Tewson
Congress v. Twitter
Margaret Sullivan On The Future Of Media
In Defense Of The Global, Open Internet
The New Abnormal On Twitter
Understanding Meta's Special Whitelist Program
Scrutinizing "The Twitter Files"
Will Elon Kill Twitter?
The DSA Is A Mess, But Will Now Rule The Internet
Can An Oversight Board Solve Infrastructure Moderation Questions?
Can You Mandate Editorial Transparency?
Walled Culture
Celebrating 25 Years Of Techdirt
Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, And Infrastructure Content Moderation
Elon Musk Takes His Chances In The Court Of Chancery
Is AI Art The End For Artists?
The Problems With The California Kids' Code
Walled Culture Interview
Broadband Competition Is Just A Click Away
What Is Web5?
Revisiting The Question Of Proprietary Platforms For Media Companies
Why Patent Quality Matters
What Is Platform Democracy?
There Are Both Smart & Dumb Ways To Improve Copyright
Elon Musk Doesn't Understand Twitter
The Startup Trail
The Real Beneficiaries Of Section 230
Algorithmic Destruction
Predicting The Future
The Right To Repair
Gaming Like It's 1926
The United States Of Anonymous
Regulating The Internet
EARN IT Is Still Bad
A Global History Of Free Speech
Remembering The SOPA Fight, With Rep. Zoe Lofgren
Getting Out Of Control
Evolving Norms In The Governance Of Online Communities
Lessons From The First Internet Ages
Missouri Hasn't Really Learned Its Lesson
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Facebook
The Facebook Papers & The Media
Creating A New Social Media Ecosystem With Middleware
Scarcity, Abundance & NFTs
How Our Views Have Changed Over 300 Episodes
The Misinformation About Disinformation
The Impact Of "Shadowbanning"
The Future Of Libraries
Internet Policy & The Canadian Election
What Oracle/Google Means For Copyright And Interoperability
When Your Art Projects Keep Getting Cease & Desist Letters
Understanding California's Digital Vaccine Records
The Problem Of 'Jawboning'
Free Speech, Elections, Vaccines, And Social Media
Patent Quality Week
Florida's Social Media Bill Fiasco, With State Rep. Anna Eskamani
Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
Regulating Amplification Is A Lot Harder Than You Think
How GirlCon Is Fighting To Empower Women In Tech
Welcome To Money City
How To Think About Cybersecurity
Debating Section 230, With WIRED's Gilad Edelman
The Facebook Oversight Board's Trump Decision
Twitter, Free Speech, And Mob Behavior
Beyond Blocking: Thinking Creatively About Content Moderation
How Rights Went Wrong
Two Curious Cases
Section 230 & The PACT Act
Silicon Values, With Jillian York
The State Of Trust & Safety
Lessons In Innovation From The History Of Fabric
How The Techlash Happened
Section 230 Matters, With Ron Wyden & Chris Cox
Gaming Like It's 1925
Regulating The Internet Won't Fix A Broken Government
The Oversight Board Starts Overseeing Facebook
A New Approach To Fighting Online Harassment
A Section 230 Roundtable
In Defense Of Section 230 & A Decentralized Internet
The Future Of US Broadband
A More Competitive Web, With Cory Doctorow & Daphne Keller
Is The Techlash Over?
An Open Protocol For Web Monetization
How Would You Regulate The Internet?
The Future Of Silicon Valley
A New Model For Independent Journalism, With Casey Newton
The TikTok Order And What It Means For Innovation
Making A Better Internet
Little Brother vs. Big Audiobook, With Cory Doctorow
Threatcasting The Election
Does Amazon Really Have A Data Advantage?
Post-Pandemic Tech
The Key To Encryption
Don't Sweat The Copycats
Modeling The Pandemic
The Greenhouse Privacy Wrapup
The Most Serious Threat To Section 230
Trust & Safety Has A Posse
The Latest Attacks On Section 230
Pandemic Privacy
Section 230 & Trump's Executive Order
The .ORG Deal Post-Mortem, With Mike Godwin
Protocols Versus Platforms, Part 2
Protocols Versus Platforms, Part One
The Fate Of HQ Trivia
Gaming Like It's 1924
Larry Lessig Defends His 'Clickbait Defamation' Lawsuit
How Privacy Laws Harm Criminal Defendants
Talkin' Jomboy, New Media & Copyright
The CES 2020 Post-Mortem
Mike Godwin Defends Selling .ORG
Your Secret Consumer Score
Copying Is Not Theft
Working Futures, Part Two
Backpage v. The Feds
Pirate Shaming Lists Don't Work
Working Futures
Rep. Mark Takano On Tech In Congress
The "Facebook Supreme Court"
Does Dynamic Pricing Deserve The Hate?
Trying To Be Optimistic About The Internet
Bedbugs & Beyond, With David Karpf
Bringing Back The Internet's True Promise
What's Really In The FCC's Facebook Settlement, Part Two
What's Really In The FTC's Facebook Settlement, Part One
A Policy Bootcamp For Technologists
Don't Panic
Public Interest Tech, With Bruce Schneier
Hawley's Bill Sucks: Let Us Count The Ways...
Experimenting With Twitch
Blame Fox News Before Facebook
What If Congress Actually Understood Technology?
Breaking Facebook, With Mike Godwin And David Kaye
Politicians (Usually) Don't Understand Technology
Cory Doctorow On Anti-Circumvention (And More)
The Past & Future Of Section 230
A Free Speech Chat With FIRE
MEP Julia Reda Explains What's Next With The EU Copyright Directive
Charter Cities & Innovative Governance
The Surveillance State, With Marcy Wheeler
The Failure Of High Tech Policing
Crying Wolf Over Conservative Censorship
Delivery-Driven Government
Can Journalism Survive A Free Market?
The (Big?) Business Of Podcasting
From Apple To The ACLU, With Jon Callas
Life Without The Tech Giants
The Grand Re-Opening Of The Public Domain
The CES 2019 Post-Mortem
The EU Endangers Free Speech Online... Again
Ninja Future, With Gary Shapiro
Can Anyone Disrupt The Disruptors?
Section 230 And Political Bias
Free Speech Disorder, With Mike Godwin
Should We Break Up Big Tech?
What The Hell Is Initiative Q?
Government, Activism & Silicon Valley
AI, Free Speech & Human Rights
Free Speech & Content Moderation (Panel Discussion)
Building New Senses (Plus The Possible End Of The World)
Life Insurance, Life Surveillance
No Easy Answers For Content Moderation
Anonymity In The Media & Online
There's Always Something New To Learn About Copyright
Do Short-Term Profits Hurt Long-Term Innovation?
Emoji & The Law
Old Tweets & Your Permanent Record
Why People Don't Trust Capitalism Anymore
The EU's Copyright Threat To The Open Internet
Building Communities Outside Facebook
How Private Agreements Recreated SOPA
Sci-Fi & Scenario Planning
Are Tech And Journalism Att Odds With Each Other?
Debating Steam's New Hands-Off Policy
Are E-Scooters A Problem?
MEP Julia Reda On EU's Dangerous Copyright Proposal
Rob Reid's Mind-Bending Podcast
CIA: Collect It All
How The Courts Created The Surveillance State
Is "Free" Bad?
Getting News Without Social Media
Teaching The Law Via Podcasts
Can The Blockchain Save Publishers?
How One Court Just Screwed Up Software Development
Overreacting To Facebook's Mistakes Won't Solve Anything
What Does It Mean For Social Media To Be Held Accountable?
How MoviePass Makes Money
The Worst Of Both Worlds: SESTA & FOSTA Together
Disrupting Google
Lies, Damned Lies & Audience Metrics
Truth, Trust, Transparency & Tribalism
An Interview With Rep Zoe Lofgren
Free Speech & The Marketplace Of Ideas
Facebook Won't Save Democracy
The CES 2018 Post-Mortem
Barbies v. Bratz
The Lost Art Of Productive Debate
Games That Tell Stories
Can A Trivia App Resurrect Appointment Viewing?
Tom Wheeler Reacts To Trump's FCC
The Perils Of Internet Platform Regulation
No Easy Answers: Facebook & The Election
Who Still Needs A Personal Computer?
Donald Trump, Howard Stern... And Copyright
WTF With Tim O'Reilly
How Scandalous Are Facebook's Ad Scandals?
When Godwin's Law Met The Streisand Effect
Customize Everything!
Pokémon Gone?
20 Years Of Techdirt
The Problems With SESTA And Why Section 230 Matters
These Scammers Picked The Wrong Guy
Is There Any Smartphone Innovation Left?
Is The Economy More Important Than Democracy?
Is It Bad If Facebook Copies Everything Snapchat Does?
Rob Reid On Writing & Publishing A SciFi Novel In 2017
Patent Trolls, With Cloudflare's General Counsel
Copyright, Music & 'Theft'
Talking Freedom Of Information With A "FOIA Terrorist"
Re-Decentralizing The Web
The Future Of Internet Copyright, With TechFreedom
No, The MP3 Isn't Dead
Truth And Fiction With Cory Doctorow
The Crypto Wars May Never End
The Surveillance State
Does Pharma Really Need Patents?
The Evolution Of The Office
Why This ISP Supports Net Neutrality, Privacy Rules And More
The Truth About VPNs
The End Of Ownership
Alexa, Play This Podcast
Will Regulations Ground Drone Innovation?
When A Typo Breaks The Internet
The Miracle Of Booking Flights
Luck In Silicon Valley, With Robert Frank
The New FCC
Autonomous Cars Are Accelerating
Changing Government Starts With You
An Office In A Bag
The CES 2017 Post-Mortem
The Pros And Cons Of Pros And Cons
Is The Internet Of Things The Future, A Total Mess, Or Both?
Can We Really Colonize Mars?
Where Do You Get Your News?
Supporting Creators, With Patreon Founder Jack Conte
Debating The Facebook Filter Bubble, With Mathew Ingram
Is There A Better Way To Pick A President?
Can Tech Be Trusted Without Antitrust?
Death Knell For Software Patents
A Presidential Tech Policy Wish List
The Headphone Jack Apocalypse!
Pardon Snowden
Passwords Suck; What's Next?
Is Facebook Moderation A Necessary Evil?
Is Capitalism Over?
Inside A Really Good Kickstarter Campaign
The Gawker Debate
An Interview With Kim Dotcom's Lawyer
Have Platforms Killed The Open Internet By Replacing Protocols?
Is Your Algorithm Racist?
Is It The 'Pokémon' Or The 'Go' That Matters?
'Disruption' Is Not An Excuse For Lying
Chatbots: Fad Or The Future?
Senator Wyden On The Expansion Of FBI Surveillance
Can Direct Democracy Work?
What's Next For Net Neutrality?
What's Next For Online Video?
The Link Between Credit And Surveillance
Tech Policy Goes Local
What Happened At The Oracle Google Trial?
Why Is Tesla So Successful?
Is There Enough Demand For The On Demand Economy?
The Tough Choices Platforms Make
Should Internet Companies Sway Elections?
Is It Futile To Draw Borders On The Internet?
Free Culture And Aaron Swartz (Part Two)
Free Culture And Aaron Swartz (Part One)
The Great Encryption Debate: Should There Be Back Doors?
Why Are There So Many Messaging Companies?
Net Neutrality, Zero Rating & The Games Internet Providers Play
Apple, The FBI & You
Hacking The Patent System
The Best/Worst Time To Be A Content Creator
Barry Eisler On Publishing, Keanu Reeves And More (Part Two)
Barry Eisler On Truth, Fiction And The Surveillance State (Part One)
Does The Internet Create More "Winner Take All" Companies?
Just How Bad Is The TPP?
Can Silicon Valley Help "Disrupt" ISIS?
The CES Post-Mortem
How Much Surveillance Is Acceptable?
It Ain't Easy To Give Away $45 Billion
Why Intermediary Liability Is The Most Important Question Online
The EU Has Set Privacy & Free Speech On A Collision Course
Bubbles, Busts & Unicorns
Our Podcast About Podcasts
A Whirlwind Tour Of Current Policy Issues In Tech
Our Hacking Laws Are A Mess
Trademarks: Intellectual Property Or Consumer Protection?
Things We Got Wrong
No, You're Not The Product
Why The Freedom To Tinker Matters
Why Do We Let An 86 Year Old Librarian Decide Who's Allowed To Innovate?
Adblocking Wouldn't Be A Problem If Ads Didn't Suck So Much
Privacy Policies Have Nothing To Do With Privacy
Is Silicon Valley Only Building Tech For The Rich?
Technology's Impact On Democracy
Yes, There Are Business Models That Don't Need Intellectual Property
Humble Bundle Deserves More Credit For Its Many Innovations
In Defense Of Copying
Kevin Smith On How To Be Yourself And Make A Living
Apple Versus Google
Reddit And The Challenges Of Building A Business Out Of A Community
Are Smart Watches The New Calculator Watches?
Closing In On Virtual Reality
Does Distance Matter In The Digital Age?
Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything
Is Car Ownership On The Way Out?
The Rise Of The On-Demand Economy
Silicon Valley's Secret Ingredient
EFF's Parker Higgins On Correcting Copyright Misconceptions
EFF's Parker Higgins On Common Copyright Misconceptions
Is AirBnB Good Or Bad For Cities?
Are Smaller Online Media Players Doomed In The Age Of Buzzfeed?
How The Patent System Can Be Fixed
How The Patent System Is Broken
From Lulz To Activism, With Gabriella Coleman
The Many Faces Of Anonymous, With Gabriella Coleman
Musicians Making Money, With Composer Adam Fong
Rethinking Work, Income & Leisure: Albert Wenger On Basic Income
What's It Like To Drive For Uber And Lyft?
Do You Need A Proprietary Platform To Be A Serious Media Company Today?
Fair Use Protects Culture From Copyright, Not The Other Way Around
Former CIA Employee Barry Eisler Explains Why You Shouldn't Trust The CIA
Barry Eisler Dissects The Publishing Industry
Is Cybersecurity A Real Issue Or Government Boondoggle?
Is Muni Broadband A Monopoly Killer Or A Killer Monopoly?
Threats To Internet Freedom, Recorded Live At BitTorrent
Terms Of Service Are The New Constitution: Do They Need A First Amendment?
Should Kids Be Forced To Learn Coding? Or Economics? Or Stats?
The Internet From Space!
In Defense Of Advertising
Amanda Palmer And The Art Of Asking
Privacy And User Control, With Brad Burnham
Can You Increase Privacy By Increasing Surveillance?