Techdirt Podcast Episode 437: Social Media Is Always Changing
from the where-we've-come-from,-where-we're-going dept
For two decades, the landscape of social media has been constantly changing, and the discourse about “free speech” has been changing alongside it. This week, we’ve got a bit of an open-ended discussion with TechFreedom‘s Corbin Barthold, host of the Tech Policy Podcast, about social media’s history and future, and the question of what people really want out of it.
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