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. 99 John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’
Ep. 98 ‘The First Amendment in the Trump Era’ w/ Professor Timothy Zick
Ep. 97 There’s no such thing as free speech, argues Stanley Fish
Ep. 96 Who was Hayden C. Covington?
Ep. 95 Twenty years of FIRE with co-founder Harvey Silverglate
Ep. 94 Kevin Williamson’s ‘The Smallest Minority’
Ep. 93 ‘Coddling’ one year later
Ep. 92 Free speech, privacy, and President Trump’s Twitter account w/ Alex Abdo
Ep. 91 ‘The Grievance Studies Affair’
Ep. 90 ‘David French-ism’
Ep. 89 Prof. Samuel Abrams wrote an op-ed encouraging viewpoint diversity. Then came the fallout.
Ep. 88 Defending libraries with James LaRue
Ep. 87 Intellectual property 101
Ep. 86 Words, Violence, and Censorship at Williams College
Ep. 85 Wen Fa of the Pacific Legal Foundation
Ep. 84 The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
Ep. 83 Mustafa Akyol on jailing journalists in Turkey, ‘re-educating’ Uyghurs in China, and cultural conformity in America
Ep. 82 ‘Can free speech be progressive?’
Ep. 81 Techdirt’s Mike Masnick
Ep. 80 Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2019
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