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🗓️ 25 February 2023
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The Supreme Court heard two cases this week that could upend Silicon Valley. On this week’s On The Media, a look at the fragile law holding the modern internet together. Plus, how a century-long PR campaign taught Americans to love the free market and loathe their own government.
1. Emily Birnbaum [@birnbaum_e], tech lobbying reporter with Bloomberg, Mark Joseph Stern [@mjs_DC], senior writer at Slate, and Emma Llanso [@ellanso], director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, on two cases argued in front of the Supreme Court this week and how they could impact the future of the internet. Listen.
2. Naomi Oreskes [@NaomiOreskes], professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the co-author, with Erik M. Conway, of “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market,” on century-old PR campaign, conducted by big business, to imbue Americans with a quasi-religious belief in the free market. Listen.
3. China Miéville, a speculative fiction writer and author of the recent book, "A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto," on the ebb and flow of the text’s popularity through the decades, and what we might draw from it today. Listen.Music:Nocturne No.1 in B-Flat Major Op.9. No1 (Chopin) - Ivan MoravecBallade No. 2 in F, Op. 38 (Chopin) - Maurizio PolliniMarch for the 3rd Regiment of Foot - Liberty Tree Wind Players The New East Louis Toodle-Oo (Duke Ellington) The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry Stolen Moments - Ahmad Jamal Trio
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0:00.0 | The landmark cases that could change the internet and social media as we know it. |
0:05.1 | Two cases argued before the Supreme Court this week elicited cries that the cyber sky |
0:10.5 | is falling after all. |
0:13.1 | It is only nine justices on that bench and for them to kind of remake the legal framework |
0:18.2 | that all of the tech industry of the United States and a lot of the free speech online |
0:22.4 | around the world depends on is kind of a lot. |
0:25.7 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
0:28.5 | I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
0:30.2 | Some Americans are looking at capitalism and wondering if they've been kind. |
0:35.4 | Nobody wants to be a sucker and in a sense we've been suckered by the market fundamentalism |
0:41.1 | narrative. |
0:42.1 | Plus rereading the communist manifesto. |
0:45.5 | If you cannot engage with the way that the substance and the style are working together |
0:51.5 | you will never understand what kind of book this is. |
0:54.8 | So I'll come in up after this. |
1:01.3 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
1:04.3 | I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
1:06.0 | And I'm Michael Lohinger. |
1:07.6 | This week the high court pondered the fate of Silicon Valley. |
1:11.1 | Back to back oral arguments and landmark cases that could change the internet as we know |
1:16.1 | it. |
1:17.1 | This seems to be a come up for Twitter, Google, Facebook, at the Supreme Court. |
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