Richard Morrison (Competitive Enterprise Institute) joins the show for a Big Picture Episode on how AI could affect art, culture, and politics.Topics include:Take your Zyn and LSDDon’t rock out to this AI bandWhat is AI slop? (What is art?!)Cultural elites hardest hitA brief history of tech panicsBan the prompt theory!The AI civil rights movementAI as countercultureLinks:Big Yowie, AI social media influencerAI and the End of the WorldMore Thoughts on AIRichard’s Free the Economy podcastTech Policy Podcast 366: Tech, Gender, and Freedom (2023/24 Big Picture Episode)Tech Policy Podcast 327: The Collapse of Complex Societies (2022 Big Picture Episode)Tech Policy Podcast 301: The Realignment (2021 Big Picture Episode)
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412: NASA: Lost in Space?
TechFreedom’s Jim Dunstan and Corbin Barthold discuss the NASA administrator vacancy, the Artemis program, the NASA budget, SpaceX and Blue Origin, the moon and Mars, the FAA and NEPA, space regulatory sandboxes, and more.Links:“A Blueprint to Launch”: Regulatory Sandboxes for Outer SpaceRoadster location in spaceTech Policy Podcast 372: Spacesuits!Tech Policy Podcast 349: The State of Space ExplorationFoster The People - Lost In Space
FTC commissioners Rebecca Slaughter, Alvaro Bedoya, and Bill Kovacic speak with hosts Bilal Sayyed and Jessica Melugin at the 2025 TechFreedom / CEI Policy Summit: Constitutional Limits of FTC, FCC & DOJ Interference in Media and Speech.Links:Constitutional Limits of FTC, FCC and DOJ | Day 1Constitutional Limits of FTC, FCC and DOJ | Day 2SCOTUS Should Not Hand Sweeping Removal Powers to this PresidentSupreme Court order in Wilcox v. NLRBTech Policy Podcast 410: The FTC and Online Speech: What’s Next?Tech Policy Podcast 409: The FTC's Quixotic Social Media InquiryTech Policy Podcast 402: Can Trump Fire FTC Commissioners at Will?
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410: The FTC and Online Speech: What’s Next?
Maneesha Mithal (Wilson Sonsini) discusses the FTC’s investigation of social media companies. What’s going on behind the scenes? What’s the FTC likely to do now? How can platforms prepare? How much damage to the First Amendment can the FTC inflict? We cover all this and more.Links:Tech Policy Podcast 409: The FTC’s Quixotic Social Media InquiryTech Policy Podcast 406: The Take It Down Act (Is a Weapon)Tech Policy Podcast 394: Tech and Trump 2.0Tech Policy Podcast 322: FTC Commissioner Noah PhillipsAppeals Court: Yeah, Of Course Ken Paxton’s Investigation Into Media Matters Was Bullshit
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409: The FTC’s Quixotic Social Media Inquiry
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Santana Boulton (TechFreedom) discuss the FTC’s “Inquiry on Tech Censorship.”Topics include:What are we doing here?The myth surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptopDoes the FTC know how terms of service work?Does the FTC know how cartels work?Content moderation is pro-free speechJawboning on steroidsLinks:Copia Institute FTC comments (https://tinyurl.com/y6r2b82f)TechFreedom FTC comments (https://tinyurl.com/mccbwa2h)Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop (https://tinyurl.com/685fjmk8)Moderating Eating Disorder Content Is Harder Than You Think (https://tinyurl.com/r37nvnjb)Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media? (https://tinyurl.com/bdec2u9w)
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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