The liability protections in Section 230 that make digital free speech possible have faced nearly constant threats from both sides of the aisle. Late last year, Sen. Josh Hawley introduced the Ending Support for Online Censorship Act that would require the government to certify that platforms were being neutral in their content moderation. Diane Katz, senior research fellow in regulatory policy at the Heritage Foundation, joins the show to discuss the challenges of assessing bias and the threats Hawley’s approach poses to free speech. For more, see her recent paper on the legislation.
#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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