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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Conservative lawmakers in Florida and Texas are taking aim at content moderation on social media, with implications that go far beyond just the platforms.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:07.6 | Mark, why don't you tell me who you are and what you do? |
| 1:10.8 | Hi, I'm Mark Joseph Stern. I'm a senior writer for Slate covering Courts in the Law. |
| 1:15.9 | I asked Mark to come on the show this week because I wanted to talk to him about a couple of laws. |
| 1:20.4 | Laws in Texas and Florida that take aim at social media companies and how they moderate content. |
| 1:27.0 | Laws that if they took effect would drastically alter how these platforms work. |
| 1:32.9 | But first, I needed Mark to take a look at his own social media. Are you able to open up your |
| 1:38.8 | Twitter for me just in front of me? Yeah. Absolutely. I'm looking at it right now in fact. |
| 1:45.6 | Okay. What is your Twitter just a snapshot of it look like right now? What's going on? |
| 1:51.6 | It's a bunch of law professors debating about legal realism. |
| 1:56.8 | Interest by a bunch of media people talking about a New York restaurant scene that I don't understand. |
| 2:06.8 | I wonder what your Twitter might hypothetically look like in a universe where some of these laws |
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