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. 117 What a summer …
Ep. 116 ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’ with Prof. Peter Singer
Ep. 115 ‘Dare to Speak’ with PEN America’s Suzanne Nossel
Ep. 114 Glenn Loury objects
Rebroadcast: How Daryl Davis, a black man, defeats the Ku Klux Klan with open dialogue
Ep. 113 Charlottesville reflections with Rodney Smolla
Ep. 112 College social media censorship
Ep. 111 'Dear Colleague,' due process now required. Title IX rules analysis.
Ep. 110 The Constitution in the age of coronavirus w/ Prof. Josh Blackman
Ep. 109 Censorship pandemic
Ep. 108 A history of (dis)information wars in the Soviet Union and beyond
Ep. 107.1 "Coronavirus and the failure of the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’"
Ep. 107 FIRE, the coronavirus, and the failure of the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’
Ep. 106 ‘Free speech and justified true belief’ w/ prof. Joseph Blocher
Ep. 105 ‘Rap on Trial’
Ep. 104 Violent video games with Villanova Professor Patrick M. Markey
Ep. 103 Guns, addiction, and the press
Ep. 102 Cultural sites, slurs, antisemitism, and Title IX
Ep. 101 McCarthyism and The Red Scare
The 100th episode: The state of free speech in America
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