Jess Miers (Akron Law) discusses the problems with the Take It Down Act—the federal bill that (ostensibly) targets non-consensual intimate imagery.Topics include:What does Take It Down (claim) to do?FFS, enforce the laws you have!“Sexually explicit content” (in a normal world)Brendan Carr is a preview of things to comeAmy Klobuchar is asleepIs the “it” in Take It Down “all adult content”?The censorship administrationLinks:Jess’s Bluesky thread on Take It DownThe Take It Down Act Isn’t a law, It’s a WeaponTech Policy Podcast 403: The Constitutional CrisisTech Policy Podcast 404: The Worst Possible Moment to Break Encryption
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405: No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been “Solved”
Eric Goldman (Santa Clara Law) discusses his new paper, “The ‘Segregate-and-Suppress’ Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online.”Topics include:The many kinds of online age-verification lawAge verification as an information problemFancy tech as deus ex machinaData collection today; state surveillance tomorrowWhat about devices and app stores?The internet and Maslow’s hierarchy of needsChild safety: it takes a villageThe parental consent nightmareLinks:The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety OnlineAge-Verification Laws Are a Verified MistakeTech Policy Podcast 354: Online Age Verification (Sucks)
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404: The Worst Possible Moment to Break Encryption
Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discusses the recent spate of attacks on end-to-end encryption—and free speech more broadly—in the United Kingdom and United States.Links:U.K. Orders Apple to Let It Spy on Users’ Encrypted AccountsTech Policy Podcast 356: The UK Targets End-to-End EncryptionThe UK’s state-funded anti-encryption propagandaThe UK Has A Voyeuristic New Propaganda Campaign Against Encryption
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403: The Constitutional Crisis
Liz Dye and Andrew Torrez (Law & Chaos) discuss the Trump administration’s renditions to El Salvador, its purges of Justice Department lawyers, and other heinous things you should worry about.Links:Law & ChaosTrump v. J.G.G. (SCOTUS)Noem v. Abrego Garcia (4th Cir.)Trump docket w/ CourtListener linksThe Constitutional Crisis Is Here
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402: Can Trump Fire FTC Commissioners at Will?
In a crossover episode with the Rethinking Antitrust podcast, Bilal Sayyed (TechFreedom) questions our host, Corbin Barthold, about the presidential removal power, Humphrey’s Executor, the FTC, the Trump administration, and the Roberts Court.Note: This episode was recorded just before the D.C. Circuit issued an interlocutory order addressing the president’s removal power as to the NLRB and the MSPB. That order is in the links.Links:Rethinking AntitrustThe Executive Power of RemovalWill the Supreme Court Face Down Trump or Flinch?The D.C. Circuit’s post-recording order
Tech policy is at the center of the hottest debates in American law and politics. On the Tech Policy Podcast, host Corbin Barthold discusses the latest developments with some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, academics, and more.
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