Episode 142: SPECIAL: Section 230 Roundtable hosted by Tom Merritt of The Daily Tech News Show
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Px3 guest host Tom Merritt chairs an informative roundtable on one of today's top tech issues.
Are Facebook and Twitter protected by a shield that stops them from being responsible for any of their content? We bring on Mike Masnick from TechDirt and Shoshana Weissman from the R Street Institute to talk about what Section 230 is, what it isn’t, and whether it needs to be changed.
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| 0:00.0 | Politics Politics politics politics |
| 0:02.0 | Politics! |
| 0:03.0 | Politics! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, chamo, chamo, chamo, chamo, chamo, |
| 0:20.5 | yeah, yeah, yeah, Hello and welcome everybody. This is a little bit of extra content for you. |
| 0:37.0 | Normally we don't have episodes come out on Tuesday but here is something to listen to. |
| 0:44.3 | So Tom Merritt, who is oftentimes on our show |
| 0:47.4 | in alternate duties as either a guest host or a tech expert or our UK correspondent despite the fact that he's in |
| 0:59.3 | LA. In his day job he hosts the Daily Tech News show which for my money is probably the most |
| 1:11.8 | indispensable place where you can keep up with all of |
| 1:16.3 | tech news in a way that doesn't buy into hyper hyperbole. |
| 1:21.1 | So section 230, something that has come under a lot of |
| 1:27.1 | conversation over the past few weeks and will continue to going forward is a hot topic and Tom just put out for |
| 1:37.4 | DT and S listeners a round table that he did on the subject with a few other very learned folks he offered it to us I |
| 1:45.7 | gladly took it and now you will hear it so please enjoy the work of Tom Merritt on this roundtable discussion of section |
| 1:57.5 | 230. This is a special daily tech news show Roundtable. |
| 2:07.0 | Today we'll discuss Section 230 of U.S. Code Title 47, aka Safe Harbor, aka Political Weapon. |
| 2:14.4 | It's a section that has recurred as a talking point |
| 2:17.0 | in the regulation of internet companies, |
| 2:18.4 | particularly social media companies, |
| 2:20.6 | like Facebook and Twitter. |
| 2:21.8 | And we want to know a little more about what it is and what it isn't. |
| 2:26.0 | And to help us understand it, we have two excellent guests. |
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