Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff discuss their fantastic new book, The Future of Free Speech.
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The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom
433: AI and the First Amendment
07/04/2026 | 1h 6 mins.
TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Santana Boulton, and Andy Jung discuss whether AI promotes free speech, why AI outputs are protected free expression, why Anthropic should win its First Amendment lawsuit against the Department of War, and much else besides.
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AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence
Don’t Ban Kids From Using Chatbots
Heaven’s Gate—How and When It May Be Entered
432: Live: The New Frontiers of Speech
23/03/2026 | 56 mins.
Our host, Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom), speaks on a panel at State of the Net with Joel Thayer (Digital Progress Institute) and Ashkhen Kazaryan (The Future of Free Speech), and Luke Hogg (Foundation for American Innovation). They discuss how the First Amendment should work in a world of algorithms and AI.
Links:
AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence (Corbin’s new paper) (https://tinyurl.com/mw5vbuzf)
State of the Net 2026
Tech Podcast Policy 373: Porn and the First Amendment
Tech Podcast Policy 417: Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Is Wreaking Havoc
Host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) deconstructs Justice Barrett’s surprisingly influential concurrence in Moody v. NetChoice. Or: Why the First Amendment protects algorithms and AI.
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Moody v. NetChoice
The Post-human First Amendment
Tech Policy Podcast 286: How Algorithms Can Fight Extremism
Tech Policy Podcast 414: Beware the Butlerian Jihad
430: Social Media on Trial
26/02/2026 | 52 mins.
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 Barthold (TechFreedom) review the many problems with letting plaintiffs’ lawyers demagogue social media platforms in front of a jury.
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Social Media Addiction Lawsuits: The Deceptively Flawed Tobacco Analogy
Tech Policy Podcast 347: When Schools Scapegoat Social Media
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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