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435: Live: The Perennial Urge to Censor New Technology
13/05/2026 | 1 h 16 min
Host Corbin Barthold heads to New York to speak at FIRE’s Free Speech Future event series. The panel features Kmele Foster (The Fifth Column), Nico Perrino (FIRE), and Prof. Christopher Ferguson (Stetson University).
Links:
Free Speech Future: Episode III – Cycles of Censorship: Emerging Technologies
Free Speech Future
From the Vault: Algorithmic Amplification
28/04/2026 | 1 h
From January 9, 2022 (Episode 310): Daphne Keller discusses her paper “Amplification and Its Discontents” with Corbin Barthold and Ari Cohn.
Links:
Amplification and Its Discontents: Why Regulating the Reach of Online Content Is Hard
Tech Policy Podcast 389: The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform
434: The Free Speech Recession
14/04/2026 | 59 min
Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff discuss their fantastic new book, The Future of Free Speech.
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The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom
433: AI and the First Amendment
07/04/2026 | 1 h 6 min
TechFreedom’s Corbin Barthold, Santana Boulton, and Andy Jung discuss whether AI promotes free speech, why AI outputs are protected free expression, why Anthropic should win its First Amendment lawsuit against the Department of War, and much else besides.
Links:
AI + 1A: Why the First Amendment Protects Artificial Intelligence
Tech policy is at the center of the hottest debates in American law and politics. On the Tech Policy Podcast, host Corbin Barthold discusses the latest developments with some of the tech world's best journalists, lawyers, academics, and more.
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