Techdirt Podcast Episode 320: Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand Twitter

from the like,-at-all dept

Tue, May 17th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

It’s no secret that Elon Musk’s statements about his plans for Twitter have been confused to say the least. It has become abundantly clear that he doesn’t know much at all about how a service like Twitter operates, especially when it comes to content moderation, and doesn’t seem to have much interest in learning. On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Renee DiResta from the Stanford Internet Observatory to discuss just how little Elon Musk understands the platform he’s supposedly planning to buy.

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Filed Under: content moderation, elon musk, free speech, social media
Companies: twitter

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 319: The Startup Trail

Policy

from the games-that-teach dept

Wed, May 4th 2022 01:31pm - Leigh Beadon

Last week, in partnership with Engine, we launched our startup policy simulator game Startup Trail. The game puts you in the shoes of a founder trying to build a successful startup, and facing the many difficult policy decisions that entails without running out of money, losing all your users, or ending up with a company that has no innovative ability. This week on the podcast, Mike and I are joined by our game design partner Randy Lubin of Leveraged Play as well as Kate Tummarello and Abby Rives from Engine, for a discussion all about how the game came to be and what we hope people will learn from it.

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Filed Under: abby rives, games, gaming, Kate Tummarello, podcast, policy, randy lubin, startup trail, startups

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 318: The Real Beneficiaries Of Section 230

Legal Issues

from the it's-not-about-big-tech dept

Tue, Apr 19th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

So much of the debate about Section 230 is based on an incorrect understanding of its procedural benefits, and the completely false idea that it’s a special gift to “big tech”. A new paper (which we wrote about yesterday) by Elizabeth Banker from the Chamber of Progress dives deep into the real benefits and beneficiaries of Section 230, and this week she joins us on the podcast to discuss how the law protects small companies, individuals, and free speech.

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Filed Under: Elizabeth Banker, free speech, intermediary liability, podcast, section 230

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 317: Algorithmic Destruction

Privacy

from the data-deletion dept

Tue, Apr 12th 2022 01:43pm - Leigh Beadon

People often talk about some kind of “right to deletion” as an approach to fixing online privacy issues. This construct can create problems, as we’ve seen with Europe’s version, but newer proposals don’t seem to consider these lessons. A recent paper by law professor Tiffany Li looks at another angle on the issue: how data deletion impacts algorithms and AI-trained models. This week, Tiffany joins us on the podcast to discuss this concept of “algorithmic destruction”, and how policy makers are ignoring it.

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Filed Under: algorithms, podcast, privacy, right to be forgotten, Tiffany Li

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 316: Predicting The Future

Predictions

from the failed-forecasts dept

Tue, Apr 5th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Recently, Mike joined Jason Feifer on the Build for Tomorrow podcast for a discussion about predicting the future — and specifically about a prediction that Mike got very wrong. The episode includes interviews with several other guests on the subject, and we’re featuring the whole thing this week on the Techdirt Podcast.

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Filed Under: forecasting, future, jason feifer, podcast, prediction

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 315: The Right To Repair

from the fixer-upper dept

Tue, Mar 15th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Five years ago, we were joined on the podcast by author and law professor Aaron Perzanowski to discuss his book about the impact of copyright on property in the digital age, The End of Ownership. That book touched on the issue of repairing devices and the ways companies make it difficult, but his new book, The Right To Repair, puts this topic in the spotlight. This week, Aaron joins us to discuss the history and future of the right to repair around the world.

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Filed Under: aaron perzanowski, copyright, dmca, podcast, right to repair

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 314: Gaming Like It’s 1926

from the game-jam dept

Wed, Mar 9th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

It took a little longer than usual, but we’ve finally announced the winners of the fourth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1926! In this episode, Mike and I are joined by Randy Lubin (our partner in running the jam) to discuss the winners in all six categories, as well as some of our favorite entries that didn’t quite make the cut.

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Filed Under: copyright, game jam, games, gaming like its 1925, podcast, public domain

Techdirt Podcast Episode 313: The United States of Anonymous

Free Speech

from the who-said-that dept

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

Nearly three years ago, we were joined by Professor Jeff Kosseff to discuss his then-new book about Section 230, The Twenty-Six Words That Created The Internet. Now, Jeff has a new book coming out, about another internet issue that is deeply misunderstood by many people: anonymity. The United States Of Anonymous releases in two weeks, and on today’s episode Jeff joins us to discuss how the right to anonymity has shaped American values, politics, business, security, and discourse.

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Filed Under: anonymity, jeff kosseff, online anonymity, podcast

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 312: Regulating The Internet

Policy

from the possibilities-and-pitfalls dept

Tue, Feb 22nd 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve got another cross-post this week: Mike was recently a guest on the new Internet of Humans podcast by Jillian York and Konstantinos Komaitis, for a wide-ranging discussion about internet regulation issues today and where they might be headed. You can listen to the entire conversation on this week’s episode.

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Filed Under: jillian york, konstantinos komaitis, podcast, regulation

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Techdirt Podcast Episode 311: EARN IT Is Still Bad

Policy

from the they-didn't-learn-anything dept

Tue, Feb 15th 2022 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

More than a year and a half ago we were joined on the podcast by Riana Pfefferkorn, then the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and now a research fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory, to discuss the disastrous EARN IT Act. As you probably know, EARN IT is back, and this week, Riana joins us once again to discuss why it hasn’t gotten any better — and might in fact have gotten worse.

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Filed Under: earn it, encryption, podcast, policy, riana pfefferkorn, section 230

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