#50: Regulators Gonna Regulate

Tech Policy Podcast

TechFreedom

Technology

4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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You may not know much about the most important agency in Washington when it comes to regulating new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission, or FTC for short, is for better or worse, becoming the Federal Technology Commission. This week, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill resigned, leaving a second seat for Congress to fill. What does a second vacancy mean for the agency? Can the agency protect consumers without stifling innovation? Evan and Berin discuss the FTC’s past, present, and future. For more, see Berin’s post on Medium.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech policy podcast, your source for policy discussions and carefully scripted humor.
0:10.8	I'm Evan Schwarzen-Strechtraber, your host. On today's show, regulating new technologies.
0:15.4	You may not know much about the most important agency in Washington when it comes to regulating new technologies, the Federal Trade
0:21.2	Commission, or FDC, for short, is for better or worse becoming the Federal Technology Commission.
0:27.5	Joining me to discuss this is new technology himself, Baron Soka, President of Tech Freedom,
0:33.1	Baron. You know, every time you tweak your opening, it becomes more rigid.
0:38.6	Ah, so, you know, I'm glad you said that because I wanted to bring something up.
0:42.2	On our last podcast, according to two of my coworkers, you were mean to me.
0:48.4	They said that not only did you mock my laugh, you also mocked me for not having a law degree.
0:56.5	And you've now mocked my demeanor within one minute of this show starting when you didn't even know that I was going to reference you being mean to me on the last show.
1:04.5	So is there nothing more emblematic of the problem than this?
1:07.4	Nope.
1:08.9	I mean.
1:09.3	But at least I'm not doing it in front of your mom.
1:11.4	I was very nice to you when she was here.
1:13.2	Oh, yeah.
1:13.9	Great.
1:14.5	Yeah.
1:14.8	Well, anyway, for what it's worth, our listeners should know that the running joke here
1:19.6	is, in fact, that as much as I might tease you about this, in fact, I'm apparently
1:24.0	according to listener feedback.
1:26.3	Let's see.
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