#280: Section 230, Antitrust, and Consumer Protection

Tech Policy Podcast

TechFreedom

Technology

4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Global Antitrust Institute’s Report on the Digital Economy is out! Berin Szóka, the founder of TechFreedom, returns to the show to discuss his chapter, Section 230: An Introduction for Antitrust & Consumer Protection Practitioners. On tap: the history of Section 230; how it applies in antitrust and consumer-protection cases; l’affaire Federalist; adventures in futile litigation; Internet Darwinism; and more. Be sure to check out the full GAI report.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast, Episode 280.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Corbyn Barthold.
0:14.0	It's my first time hosting.
0:15.0	I'm very excited to be here, especially because our guest today is the founder of Tech Freedom, Baron Soka,
0:23.6	frequent guest and friend of the show.
0:26.6	Baron, how are you doing?
0:27.6	Well, I'm sad not to be interviewed by Ash, but I'm looking forward to our conversation
0:33.6	and having you run the podcast in the near future. Wonderful. Well, I'm very glad to have you.
0:40.3	As I've told you before, you speak in full paragraphs,
0:44.3	and I'm always very impressed on these kinds of things that you do.
0:48.3	So I'm glad to be with you.
0:50.3	And I'm sorry that I'm not Ashken, but I will do my best.
0:53.3	Today we're talking about a topic that actually you and she have worked on extensively,
0:58.1	Section 230.
1:00.0	And there's a debate, a raging Twitter debate about, is it Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934
1:06.4	or of the Communications Decency Act?
1:09.9	Actually, it's more complicated than that.
1:12.3	It's originally the Internet Empowerment and Family Protection Act,
1:17.5	which was drafted in the House by Representative Chris Cox,
1:21.0	a Republican, Representative Ron Wyden, Democrat.
1:23.5	They had their own bill.
1:25.1	That bill was added to the House version of the Telecommunications Act of 1995, which was the first major update to the Communications Act of 1994. And that bill was melded together with the Senate version of the Telecommunications Act of what became 1996, which had a completely
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