401: Everything NetChoice

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Chris Marchese, NetChoice’s director of litigation, discusses the many, many lawsuits NetChoice has brought to defend free speech on the Internet. Topics include: - Texas’s HB 20: time to create a 100,000 page record - NetChoice speaks for you! - California’s building code for the Internet - “Addictive”: you keep using that word . . . - Targeting social media = targeting the little guy - Age-gating the Web: bad idea then; bad idea now Links: Second preliminary-injunction order in NetChoice v. Bonta (N.D. Cal.) (https://tinyurl.com/mr2e3h5r) Tech Policy Podcast 383: SCOTUS Internet Non-Law (https://tinyurl.com/2284wy8s)

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0:00.0	If you're going to be able to be.
0:03.0	And If you're a state legislator who wants to curtail free speech on the internet,
0:30.1	it must feel like net choice is everywhere.
0:33.7	They're in the bushes.
0:35.2	They're behind the drapes.
0:37.1	They're under the kitchen sink. Say their name three times in the bushes. They're behind the drapes. They're under the kitchen sink.
0:39.3	Say their name three times in the mirror and they'll pop up behind you with a lawsuit.
0:44.5	They know if you've been bad or good. And state legislators, let's face it, you've mostly been bad.
0:52.8	The internet is protected by the First Amendment.
0:57.5	Net Choice brings lawsuits aimed at making sure that doesn't change.
1:04.2	Net Choice isn't involved in every lawsuit involving Internet regulation, but sometimes it feels that way.
1:11.4	By my count, they are involved in 34,316 lawsuits involving internet freedom.
1:18.7	Netchoice has had a lot of success challenging bad statutes.
1:23.9	They've persuaded the courts to block laws that try to dictate what content social media platforms must carry.
1:30.0	Laws that try to make platforms confess to the state at length, how terrible they are,
1:36.9	laws that try to declare social media content too dangerous for minors, and much else besides.
1:44.5	Will this success continue?
1:48.1	That is one question I will have today on this, the Tech Policy Podcast.
1:54.2	I'm your host, Corbyn Barthold.
1:57.0	I'm pleased to be joined by the one and only Chris Marquese, Netchoice's Director of Litigation.
2:04.3	Chris, it's so great to have you on.
2:08.4	Corbin, thank you so much for having me.
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