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436: The Future of Space Exploration
Dr. Mekhi Dhesi is a space industry executive at Slingshot Aerospace and a space communicator. She joins the show to discuss orbital mechanics, rocket science, black holes, the Fermi paradox, and…
435: Live: The Perennial Urge to Censor New Technology
Host Corbin Barthold heads to New York to speak at FIRE’s Free Speech Future event series. The panel features Kmele Foster (The Fifth Column), Nico Perrino (FIRE), and Prof. Christopher Ferguson…
From the Vault: Algorithmic Amplification
From January 9, 2022 (Episode 310): Daphne Keller discusses her paper “Amplification and Its Discontents” with Corbin Barthold and Ari Cohn. Links: Amplification and Its Discontents: Why Regulating…
434: The Free Speech Recession
Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff discuss their fantastic new book, The Future of Free Speech. Links: The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom
433: AI and the First Amendment
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…
432: Live: The New Frontiers of Speech
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…
431: Barrett’s Moody Concurrence: Oddly Popular, Wholly Wrong
Host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) deconstructs Justice Barrett’s surprisingly influential concurrence in Moody v. NetChoice. Or: Why the First Amendment protects algorithms and AI. Links: Moody v.…
430: Social Media on Trial
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…
429: AI and Jobs
Brent Orrell (American Enterprise Institute) discusses the future of work in a world of genius machines.Links:De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy What Anthropic’s Internal Study Suggests About the…
428: New Right Antitrust: Culture War Over Consumer Welfare
Thom Lambert (Mizzou Law) discusses the Trump II administration’s new right antitrust regulators. Stay calm everyone, they just want the discretion to reward friends and punish enemies.Links:‘New…
427: More State Tech Policy Than You Can Poke a Stick At
Scott Babwah Brennan is the director of NYU’s Center on Technology Policy. Scott and his team have just released their 2025 State Technology Policy Report—a thorough and thoughtful survey and…
New Year’s Message / From the Vault: Age Verification
Host Corbin Barthold offers some end-of-year reflections on the moral panic over kids’ use of social media and AI. Then we revisit Episode 405 (“No, Internet Age Verification Has Not Been ‘Solved’,”…
426: Copyright v. The Internet
Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley) discusses the Supreme Court oral argument in Cox v. Sony, a copyright case that could have major ramifications for the internet.Links:Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony…
425: Social Media Is Always Changing
Corbin heads over to the Techdirt Podcast, hosted by the one and only Mike Masnick, for a wide-ranging discussion about the state of social media.
424: Meta Beats the Antitrust Regulators
Geoff Manne (ICLE) returns! He and Corbin break down a judge’s ruling (politely) laughing the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta out of court.Topics include:The bizarro world of antitrust trash…
423: Free Speech Hypocrites
Ari Cohn (FIRE) and host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) survey the Trump administration’s many attacks on the First Amendment.Topics include:Law firms you should no longer hirePolitical opponents =…
422: Algorithms Rule the Internet (and Ash Feels Fine)
She’s back! Former host Ash Kazaryan (Future of Free Speech) returns for a wide-ranging discussion about powerful algorithms, attacks on Section 230, and much, much more.Topics include:Ash: this is…
421: OpenAI’s Tumultuous Corporate Reboot
Sri Muppidi (The Information) discusses OpenAI’s effort to overhaul its corporate structure—and the resulting power struggle over the company’s future.Links:OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115…
420: Tech and Immigration
Jeremy Neufeld (Institute for Progress) discusses how our immigration system works, why high-skilled immigrants are so important to the tech sector, what’s wrong with the Trump administration’s H-1B…
419: Do Tech Optimists Have a Party?
Adam Kovacevich (Chamber of Progress) discusses the populist / anti-tech turn in politics, and what can be done about it.Topics include:How did we get here?Tech optimists: There are dozens of…
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Tech Policy Podcast has published 444 episodes since January 2016, covering topics in Technology.
Tech Policy Podcast is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 36m.
