423: Free Speech Hypocrites

Tech Policy Podcast

TechFreedom

Technology

4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ari Cohn (FIRE) and host Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) survey the Trump administration’s many attacks on the First Amendment. Topics include: - Law firms you should no longer hire - Political opponents = terror groups?! - Brendan Carr is a lap dog - Jawboning rebrand: it’s “outreach”! - Terrorizing foreign students is bad Links: What if the Big Law Firms Hadn’t Caved to Trump? (https://tinyurl.com/3fzyve5c) The Global Free Speech Recession (https://tinyurl.com/2p9jbtek) Tech Policy Podcast 394: Tech and Trump 2.0 (https://tinyurl.com/3crnmuvd)

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	I'm going to free speech to America.
0:37.6	Since then, Trump and his administration have made that line look ridiculous again and again and again.
0:49.3	This is the Tech Policy Podcast.
0:52.6	I'm Corbyn Barthold.
0:55.0	We could have done about a half dozen episodes on this theme over the last 10 months.
1:00.9	I'm sorry we didn't.
1:02.6	But we are going to catch up today.
1:07.5	Joining me to discuss all the free speech hypocrisy is my podcast, BFF, Ari Cohn, lead counsel for tech policy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
1:20.6	Ari, sir, welcome back.
1:22.6	Howdy, howdy, howdy.
1:24.6	There are so many different attacks on free speech coming from this
1:29.5	administration. As I was preparing for this, didn't really even know where to start. So we're
1:36.6	going to do things a little differently today. I have made a game show wheel. We only do audio for this podcast.
1:47.4	So listeners are just going to have to take my word for it.
1:51.1	That there's a giant, colorful wheel in my home office here with a bunch of different wedges.
1:58.4	Each one with one of the heinous unconstitutional things that this
2:03.9	administration is up to. Ari, are you down to play the game? Yeah, I imagine that underneath
2:10.6	each wedge is just a gigantic pile of shit. Yes. Well, maybe we should just call it the wheel
2:16.9	of shit. Oh, man. We always have to click the
2:19.6	explicit button in our episodes. We didn't make it two minutes. Okay. Here we go. Law firms.
2:36.6	We have law firms.
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