Welcome to a tech policy podcast. I'm Ashman Kazarian. In today's show, we're going to talk about section 230.

Again, because that's how much it matters. Joining me is Billy Isley, a senior policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity.

Before he joined Americans for Prosperity, Billy was working on the

Hill for Senator Rand Paul, and he was handling his technology and criminal justice portfolio

as his legal counsel. Billy, thank you so much for joining the show. Hey, thank you. I'm glad to be

here and glad to talk about everyone's favorite tech policy issue these days.

So the reason we thought it would be amazing to bring you on is because you just published

an opinion piece at Slate that I thought, in my opinion, had a lot of response, positive

response and interaction with it and everyone was talking about it.

So we obviously want to be, you know, at the front of the discussions in tech policy.

So we wanted to have you here to kind of talk us through the piece and in general, the work

that you do at AFP.

So the name of your piece, which we're going to link in our show notes, is revising the law

that lets platforms moderate content will silence marginalized voices.

That's a very strong statement.

And I fully agree with you, but I want you

to work our listeners through your arguments.

And let's start with just your background, right?

Because I think that plays a very big, important role

in how you talk about

this. So where did you grow up? So I'm from the great state of Texas. In terms of identity,

I am a Dallas Cowboys fan, which is super important to me. I'm also black and gay. And that's really the sort of lens I brought to this piece because the first time I told someone that I was gay was in a MySpace group, right? The first time I joined a gay group or a gay organization was on MySpace and then on Facebook. It wasn't in high school. My high school in Texas did not have, you know, a P flag or a gay organization for kids to hang out in. So the internet was really the first time I was able to sort of really talk with someone else about what I was going through or about who I was.

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