Techdirt Podcast Episode 339: Understanding Meta’s Special Whitelist Program

from the overseen dept

Tue, Dec 13th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

It’s been a little over a year since we learned about Meta’s “X-Check” program for whitelisting high-profile Facebook accounts from various content moderation efforts. Now, after a long wait, the Oversight Board has released the results of its review of the use of the tool, and there’s plenty to dig in into. This week, we’re joined by Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America and member of the Oversight Board, to discuss the details of the program and what the board has to say about it.

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Filed Under: content moderation, oversight board, suzanne nossel
Companies: facebook, meta

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 338: Scrutinizing “The Twitter Files”

Content Moderation

from the not-much-there dept

Mon, Dec 5th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Last Friday evening, Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi dropped a non-bombshell on everyone, with the revelation of internal Twitter documents about the content moderation around Hunter Biden’s laptop that showed… nothing particularly unusual or notable happened, and there’s no evidence of government interference. Over the weekend, Mike was interviewed by Justin Hendrix for the Tech Policy Press podcast for a closer look at just what was contained in “the Twitter Files”, and we’ve got the whole conversation for you here on this week’s episode.

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Filed Under: content moderation, elon musk, hunter biden, justin hendrix, podcast
Companies: twitter

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 337: Will Elon Kill Twitter?

Failures

from the fail-whale dept

Wed, Nov 23rd 2022 01:31pm - Leigh Beadon

This week, we have a special joint episode with The Neoliberal Podcast, discussing the question on a lot of minds: just what the hell is going on at Twitter now that Elon Musk is in charge? He’s owned the company for less than a month, and it’s already in chaos. Mike sits down with Neoliberal Podcast host Jeremiah Johnson to discuss why content moderation is so difficult at scale, whether Mastodon can be a real Twitter replacement, Elon’s erratic and dumb moves, and the big question: whether or not Twitter might die.

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Filed Under: elon musk, jeremiah johnson, podcast, social media
Companies: twitter

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 336: The DSA Is A Mess, But Will Now Rule The Internet

Policy

from the big-regulation dept

Tue, Nov 1st 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

There are big internet regulatory changes coming in the EU, with the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. Each is a huge bundle of new rules that could drastically change the future of the entire internet, and today we’re focusing on the DSA, which is set to come into force in 2024. Emma Llansó from the Center for Democracy & Technology and Daphne Keller from Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center join us on this week’s episode to dig into the DSA and its many, many implications.

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Filed Under: daphne keller, digital services act, dsa, emma llanso, eu, intermediary liability, podcast, regulation

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 335: Can An Oversight Board Solve Infrastructure Moderation Questions?

Content Moderation

from the important-distinctions dept

Tue, Oct 25th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve often talked about the importance of distinguishing content moderation at the infrastructure layer of the internet stack from that which happens on platforms at the edge, and this issue was brought to the forefront recently when Cloudflare took down Kiwi Farms. This week, we’re joined by internet policy expert Konstantinos Komaitis to discuss an interesting, if admittedly imperfect, idea for approaching these tough questions: would infrastructure providers benefit from a third-party oversight board that handles content moderation decisions?

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Filed Under: content moderation, infrastructure moderation, konstantinos komaitis, podcast
Companies: cloudflare

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 334: Can You Mandate Editorial Transparency?

Legal Issues

from the not-so-fast dept

Tue, Oct 18th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Amidst all the conversation around regulating social media, algorithmic amplification, and disinformation, one idea that tends to get a lot of broad support is mandating editorial transparency. After all, it sounds nice, since transparency is usually a good thing. But in fact, there are huge legal and conceptual problems with mandated transparency. Santa Clara Law’s Eric Goldman has written papers on the constitutionality of the idea and an important Supreme Court case related to this question, and this week he joins the podcast to discuss why mandated transparency isn’t as good (or as constitutional) as many people claim.

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Filed Under: eric goldman, free speech, podcast, supreme court, transparency, zauderer

Techdirt Podcast Episode 333: Walled Culture

from the story-of-copyright dept

Wed, Oct 12th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

One of the oldest and most important topics on Techdirt is copyright, and the many problems with the law both here and abroad. One of the best voices on the subject, here and in many other publications, is Glyn Moody, who recently released his book Walled Culture, that goes through the history of how legacy copyright industries have tried to harm the internet and gain ever greater control over the work of artists and creators. It’s available as a free e-book under a Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication, and today Glyn joins the podcast to discuss the book and the long, often-sad story of copyright law around the world.

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Filed Under: copyright, glyn moody, podcast, walled culture

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 332: Celebrating 25 Years Of Techdirt

Techdirt

from the quarter-century dept

Tue, Oct 4th 2022 03:00pm - Leigh Beadon

As you probably already know, Techdirt recently marked its 25th anniversary and celebrated the occasion with an online party for our Insider subscribers. At the event, Mike was joined by Techdirt co-founder Dennis Yang for an interview conducted by Alex Feerst of Murmuration Labs, in which they looked back on the history of the site and took some questions from the audience. Now, you can listen to the full conversation on this week’s episode of the Techdirt Podcast.

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Filed Under: 25 years, anniversary, podcast

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 331: Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, And Infrastructure Content Moderation

Content Moderation

from the continuing-conversation dept

Tue, Sep 27th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

When Mike wrote a post digging into some of the complex questions surrounding Cloudflare banning Kiwi Farms, there was plenty of backlash and disagreement — much of it thoughtful and well worth engaging with. Among the strongest critics was lawyer Mike Dunford, who composed a detailed Twitter thread that lead to a lengthy back-and-forth. This week, he joins us on the podcast to continue the conversation and discuss the welcome death of Kiwi Farms as well as broader issues of content moderation at the infrastructure layer.

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Filed Under: content moderation, infrastructure, kiwi farms, mike dunford, podcast
Companies: cloudflare

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 330: Elon Musk Takes His Chances In The Court Of Chancery

Legal Issues

from the expert-analysis dept

Wed, Sep 21st 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

When the Elon Musk/Twitter drama landed in the Delaware Court Of Chancery, it thrust specialist publication The Chancery Daily into the spotlight, and they began offering up excellent explainers on this important court that most people knew very little about. The people behind the publication have decided to remain anonymous amidst the influx of attention, but today one of them joins us on the podcast to discuss just what’s going on as Elon Musk takes his chances in a court that seems pretty immune to his reality distortion field.

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Filed Under: chancery daily, delaware court of chancery, elon musk
Companies: twitter

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