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🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about a somewhat surprising speech from the antitrust chief of Trump’s DOJ. They bring you up to date on a big new data privacy bill in Congress, and Mike Nuñez, a journalist for Mashable, joins the show to discuss how his reporting on alleged liberal bias at Facebook has sparked a somewhat bizarre Congressional inquiry.
The hosts are also joined by Dr. Mary Anne Franks, a professor of law at the University of Miami Law School, where she teaches criminal law, First Amendment law, and Technology policy. They speak about the massively important Communications Decency Act, which was just amended to allow victims of sex trafficking to sue websites that knowingly facilitate it.
And as always, “Don’t Close My Tabs,” the Sean Hannity/Jeff Bezos edition.
Timestamps:
1:40 DOJ Antitrust Speech
6:15 New data privacy bill
11:13 Diamond and Silk on Capitol Hill: phone call with Mashable’s Michael Nuñez
20:55 Zillow clarification regarding last week’s show
22:14 Interview: Professor Mary Anne Franks on amending the CDA to fight sex trafficking
44: 08 Don’t Close My Tabs
Don’t Close My Tabs Links:
KQED: How Sean Hannity Began His Path to Punditry on Santa Barbara Community Radio
Washingtonian: Here Are the Floor Plans for Jeff Bezos’s $23 Million DC Home
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Will Aremus. |
| 0:11.2 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:28.5 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:32.1 | We're recording this on the morning of Tuesday, April 24th. |
| 0:37.4 | Recording a little earlier than usual today because a famous band, which we are not allowed to name, is using our |
| 0:38.6 | normal recording studio for their dressing room today. On today's show, we will talk about a somewhat |
| 0:43.4 | surprising speech from the antitrust chief of Trump's DOJ. We'll bring you up to date on a big |
| 0:49.3 | new data privacy bill in Congress. And we'll bring in Mike Nunez, a journalist from Mashable, |
| 0:54.9 | whose reporting on alleged liberal bias at Facebook has sparked a somewhat bizarre congressional inquiry. |
| 1:01.0 | Later, we'll be joined by law professor Mary Ann Franks. She teaches at the University of |
| 1:05.4 | Miami Law School on criminal, First Amendment law, and technology policy. We'll be talking |
| 1:10.5 | about the massively |
| 1:11.3 | important communications decency act, which was just amended to allow victims of sex trafficking |
| 1:16.0 | to sue websites that knowingly facilitate it. And as usual, we will end with Don't Close My Tabs, |
| 1:21.6 | some of our favorite stories we saw on the web this week. Okay, another week and more Facebook news, just what we wanted. Will, how are you doing? |
| 1:32.2 | I'm doing well. You're right. The Facebook news just won't quit. But first, we want to talk about an |
| 1:37.3 | intriguing speech given by a Trump DOJ official at the University of Chicago last week. That Trump |
| 1:43.4 | Department of Justice official is McCann delrahim. He is the country's top |
| 1:47.7 | antitrust officer, and he gave the keynote address at the University of Chicago's |
| 1:52.6 | Antitrust and Competition Conference. It's not normally a huge newsmaking event on the |
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