Sen. Ron Wyden says Trump’s Section 230 FCC shuffle is a ‘disaster’

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel and Adi Robertson talk to Senator Ron Wyden, who co-authored Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Wyden discusses the forced sale of TikTok to a US-based company, the bills out to reform Section 230, his new privacy bill preventing law enforcement from buying data on the open market, and how Trump's handling of recent FCC nominations is a "disaster." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.
0:02.6	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:05.2	We're making a new show.
0:06.5	Have a nice future.
0:09.0	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:12.5	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:16.9	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:20.5	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:24.9	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:29.2	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future wherever you get your podcasts.
0:59.2	Everybody, it's Matt from the Vurchcast.
1:06.5	A special quick turnaround interview episode today.
1:09.3	This morning, Addy Robertson, I spoke to Senator Ron Wyden.
1:12.0	He's the co-author of Section 230.
1:13.7	That's the law that basically allows social networks to exist in this country the way that
1:17.9	they do.
1:18.9	We ask Senator Wyden about the TikTok controversy.
1:21.2	He had some clear thoughts about Trump trying to force a sale of TikTok.
1:25.0	It's not what you think.
1:26.1	We also, of course, talked about Section 230, the various bills in Congress that were
1:29.3	to perform Section 230.
1:31.0	One thing I want to call out there, the Senator references Cesta Fosta a number of times.
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