Growing anti-tech sentiment both in the government and the general public has led to calls for policies that threaten to stifle innovation. Despite this rising techlash, there’s reason to be optimistic about the future of innovation, according to Jesse Blumenthal, director of technology and innovation policy at the Charles Koch Institute, who joins the show to discuss the latest developments in consumer privacy, antitrust, social media bias accusations, and more. For more, see CKI’s work on tech and innovation, and the Pessimists Archive podcast.
#324: Parler Games
#323: Florida & Texas vs. the Internet
#322: FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips
#321: Musk’s Moderation Musings (And Beyond)
#320: The Right and Social Media
#319: Remember FAANG?
#318: The Universal Service Fund
#317: Making Progress
#316: Putin’s War and the Internet
#315: Social Media “Transparency” as First Amendment Violation
#314: The State of Internet Freedom
#313: Responding to the Broadband Populists
#312: Web3
#311: Administrative Law, and Why You Should Care
#310: Algorithmic Amplification
#309: Conspiracy Theories and the Internet
#308: All Eyes on the FTC
#307: Complexity Theory in One Lesson
#306: The New Space Race
#305: FISA at the Supreme Court
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