So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
News:Politics
Jeff Kosseff is an associate professor of cybersecurity law in the United States Naval Academy’s Cyber Science Department. He is the author of four books including his most recent, “Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation.” He has also written books about anonymous speech and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:30 Jeff’s focus on the First Amendment
4:27 What is Section 230?
9:30 “Liar in a Crowded Theater”
16:27 What does the First Amendment say about lies?
19:35 What speech isn’t protected?
21:27 The Eminem case
27:33 The Dominion lawsuit
38:44 “The United States of Anonymous”
46:39 The impact of age verification laws
49:43 “The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet”
58:40 What’s next for Jeff?
1:01:35 Outro
Show Notes
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
FIRE’s guide to Section 230
Nikki Haley on social media anonymity
Schenck v. United States (1917)
“The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet” by Jeff Kosseff
NBC News: “Judge allows lawsuit against Snap from relatives of dead children to move forward”
“The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech” by Jeff Kosseff
United States v. Alvarez (2012)
Ep. 39 Judge Richard Posner on the First Amendment
Ep. 38 “After Charlottesville” w/ former ACLU President Nadine Strossen
Ep. 37 Fredrik deBoer on the growing distrust of higher ed
Ep. 36 The life of Louis Brandeis w/ Jeffrey Rosen
Ep. 35 Et tu, hecklers? Howard Sherman on defending the arts
Ep. 34 The 100th anniversary of the Espionage Act of 1917
Ep. 33 The Slants win at the U.S. Supreme Court!
Ep. 32 Tyler Cowen on the complacent campus
Ep. 31 Campus free speech round table: spring 2017 semester in review
Ep. 30 Eugene Volokh and new frontiers in the First Amendment
Ep. 29 Former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser
Ep. 28 ‘Sex and the Constitution’ with professor Geoffrey R. Stone
Ep. 27 The ‘heckler’s veto’ strikes Heather Mac Donald
Ep. 26 Putting money where your mouth is: campaign finance and free speech
Ep. 25 Bob Corn-Revere on censorship: the ‘bastard child of technology’
Ep. 24 How Daryl Davis, a black man, defeats the KKK w/ dialogue
Ep. 23 Rob Corry, ‘speech code slayer’
Ep. 22 Flemming Rose, Editor of ‘the Muhammad Cartoons’
Ep. 21 The ‘Turkey Purge’ w/ Prof. Beth Baron
Ep. 20 The ‘Turkey Purge’ w/ Mahir Zeynalov
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