Techdirt Podcast Episode 208: A Free Speech Chat With FIRE

Free Speech

from the content-moderation-and-more dept

It’s time for another special cross-post from a different podcast. Mike was recently a guest on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s So To Speak podcast, for an interview about Techdirt, free speech, content moderation, and a range of other topics. If you didn’t catch it there, you can listen to the whole interview here in this week’s episode.

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Filed Under: content moderation, fire, free speech, podcast

Techdirt Podcast Episode 207: MEP Julia Reda Explains What's Next With The EU Copyright Directive

Copyright

from the post-vote dept

Unfortunately, as you know by now, the EU Parliament approved the current (disastrous) version of the EU Copyright Directive, which is now on track to become the law of the land. It’s not good, but things aren’t quite over yet. For this week’s episode, we’ve got returning guest MEP Julia Reda — who has been a key force opposing the terrible articles in the Directive — to talk about what happens now.

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Filed Under: copyright, eu copyright directive, europe, julia reda, podcast

Techdirt Podcast Episode 206: Charter Cities & Innovative Governance

Innovation

from the new-ideas dept

We’re pretty optimistic about innovation here at Techdirt, but it isn’t an automatic good thing all by itself: implementation and intention matters, and that means political entanglements and complicated questions about governance, and that calls for big, new ideas. This week, we’re joined by Tamara Winter from the Center for Innovative Governance Research to discuss new experiments in government like charter cities and special autonomous zones.

Also, learn more about Shenzhen, the Val D’Europe, and the original vision for Disney World.

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Filed Under: charter cities, governance, government, podcast, tamara winter

Techdirt Podcast Episode 205: The Surveillance State, With Marcy Wheeler

Privacy

from the metadata-matters dept

We’ve been covering surveillance and the intelligence community for a long time here at Techdirt, but if you had to limit yourself to just one source on the subject, even we’d probably recommend you choose Marcy Wheeler. Following the recent news that the NSA has apparently shut down its bulk records collection program — the first exposed by Edward Snowden — Marcy joins us on this week’s episode to discuss the surveillance state and why it might abandon Section 215.

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Filed Under: marcy wheeler, metadata, nsa, podcast, privacy, section 215, surveillance

Techdirt Podcast Episode 204: The Failure Of High Tech Policing

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the bad-tech-or-bad-cops dept

Sometimes people ask us why we write so much about the police on Techdirt. Though our coverage has grown somewhat beyond the boundaries of incidents directly involving technology, the reality is that the problems with law enforcement persistently intersect with the same technological and legal issues we’ve always discussed here. But this week the focus is squarely on cops and technology: Mike is joined by Matt Stroud, author of the new book Thin Blue Lie, as well as our own Tim Cushing, to talk about the failure of high-tech policing.

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Filed Under: law enforcement, podcast, police, technology
Companies: taser

Techdirt Podcast Episode 203: Crying Wolf Over Conservative Censorship

Overhype

from the conspiracy-theory dept

You’ve heard the uproar — conservatives are being censored on social media! But… are they? The short answer is no. The long answer is this week’s podcast, with Lincoln Network policy head Zach Graves joining us for a discussion about the misinformation, hyperbole and general ridiculousness surrounding supposed social media bias.

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Filed Under: censorship, moderation, podcast, social media
Companies: facebook, google, twitter, youtube

Techdirt Podcast Episode 202: Delivery-Driven Government

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the different-thinking dept

Lots of people have tried to sum up the differences between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. — but it isn’t so easy to hone in on. Nevertheless, it’s clear that at least some aspects of the west-coast tech approach could benefit a government that all-too-often appears incapable of accomplishing anything much. This week, we’re joined by former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Code For America founder Jennifer Pahlka to discuss what the Hill can learn from the Valley.

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Filed Under: government, podcast, silicon valley, washington

Techdirt Podcast Episode 201: Can Journalism Survive A Free Market?

Journalism

from the no-business-like-news-business dept

It’s no secret that journalism outfits are struggling, and have been for some time. There are lots of competing ideas about why this is the case, and who to blame, but the ultimate question is the same: how do we fund good journalism going forward? This week, Mike is joined on the podcast by someone whose opinions on this question differ significantly from his own — Columbia Journalism professor and former online editor-in-chief of the Guardian Emily Bell — to talk about whether journalism can survive the free market, and what the alternatives are.

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Filed Under: business models, economics, emily bell, journalism, podcast

Techdirt Podcast Episode 200: The (Big?) Business Of Podcasting

Business Models

from the that's-a-lot-of-podcasts dept

We can hardly believe it, but as of this moment we’ve released 200 episodes of the Techdirt podcast! For this milestone, we’ve brought the increasingly-rare original team of co-hosts back together for a bit of a meta-episode all about podcasts — specifically, the recent news that Spotify has acquired Gimlet Media for the impressive and, to many, surprising sum of $230-million. Mike joined by Dennis Yang and Hersh Reddy to discuss what Spotify might be up to, and just how big the podcasting business really is.

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Filed Under: acquisition, business models, podcast, podcasting
Companies: gimlet, spotify

Techdirt Podcast Episode 199: From Apple To The ACLU, With Jon Callas

Computers

from the range-of-expertise dept

Jon Callas has been at the forefront of computer security issues for a long time, most recently as the head of Apple’s team of internal hackers that try to break into the company’s own products. But just a couple of months ago he made a change, and left Apple to work on tech policy at the ACLU. This week, he joins us on the podcast to discuss the new job, computer security policy, and the latest phase of the crypto-wars.

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Filed Under: aclu, encryption, jon callas, podcast, policy, security
Companies: apple