408: Live: FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez

Tech Policy Podcast

TechFreedom

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez speaks with TechFreedom President Berin Szóka at the 2025 TechFreedom / CEI Policy Forum: Constitutional Limits on FTC, FCC, and DOJ Interference in Media and Speech. Topics include: - Nice broadcast license. Would be a pity if … - Section 230 is good, actually - Agency independence is good, actually - How do you litigate regulation-by-threat? - Edge providers =/= common carriers - Jawboning versus jaw 👏 boning 👏 - Skidmore is for experts Links: Constitutional Limits of FTC, FCC and DOJ | Day 1 (https://tinyurl.com/bp6fuudc) Constitutional Limits of FTC, FCC and DOJ | Day 2 (https://tinyurl.com/2f8k558k)

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the tech policy podcast.
0:26.3	I'm Corbyn Barthold.
0:28.2	Today's episode is a special one.
0:31.9	Last week, Tech Freedom and the Competitive Enterprise Institute co-hosted a two-day policy forum at
0:39.9	CEI's offices in Washington, D.C. The topic was the constitutional limits on FTC, FCC, and DOJ meddling
0:52.5	in media and speech.
0:55.6	I was slated to moderate two panels,
0:59.6	but a family emergency kept me in California.
1:03.9	I was crushed to miss out.
1:06.6	But the event was a triumph, and I want to highlight it here.
1:11.9	Both days of the event are up on YouTube.
1:15.2	I will drop the links in the show notes.
1:18.6	Much ground was covered.
1:21.0	If you care about what the Trump administration's FTC and FCC are doing,
1:26.9	what they are likely to do next, and what legally they can and cannot do,
1:33.3	go watch. You will learn a lot. Okay. There's one segment from the event in particular
1:43.0	that I knew immediately was going straight
1:45.8	on to this podcast.
1:48.3	To kick off day two, FCC Commissioner Ana Gomez gave a speech and then sat down for an
1:56.9	interview with our president, Baron Soka.
2:00.3	As Commissioner Gomez noted, people are finding friends in un-election. for an interview with our president, Baron Soka.
2:00.9	As Commissioner Gomez noted,
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