Section 230 is the 1996 law that gives social media companies legal immunity for what users post on their platforms. It's why parents keep losing in court when something goes wrong inside Roblox, Snapchat, and Instagram.

In this episode of Off Air, federal criminal defense attorney Ron Chapman walks through three decades of Section 230 case law and the recent verdict that may have finally pierced the immunity.

This episode covers:
• The 1995 case behind every modern social media ruling
• The court decision that backed Congress into writing Section 230
• Why every major child safety lawsuit fails the same way
• The verdict that finally got past Section 230

Three decades of immunity. The shield is starting to break. Tune in.

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Flock Safety's license plate reader cameras have expanded to over 90,000 units across 49 states, scanning 20 billion vehicles a month and building searchable profiles on Americans. No warrant. No judicial oversight.

Federal criminal defense attorney Ron Chapman examines how the Flock system works and why dozens of cities are now canceling their contracts.

This episode covers:
• The full capability of Flock's camera network, from license plates to vehicle fingerprinting
• Cases of officers using the system to track ex-partners and surveil women across state lines
• The wave of cities pushing back against Flock surveillance
• Fourth Amendment case law from Katz to Carpenter and how it applies
• Where Flock data could end up, including aggregators like Palantir

If your community is weighing Flock cameras, this is worth hearing before the next council meeting.

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The Pentagon says a human still decides before force is used. DOD Directive 3000.09 requires "appropriate levels of human judgment" over autonomous weapon systems. Federal criminal defense attorney Ron Chapman examines whether that promise holds up against how AI is actually being used in military targeting today.

Ron served as a Marine Corps Judge Advocate in Afghanistan, where he investigated law of armed conflict violations firsthand. In this episode, he breaks down the kill chain, the OODA loop, and where AI has entered each stage.

You'll hear:

• How the military kill chain works and where AI has taken over
• Why the speed of modern AI systems is compressing the time for human judgment
• What an operator actually sees when a target is flagged as 97% likely to be a threat
• NATO's approach to meaningful human control
• What international humanitarian law requires before a strike is authorized
• Why the proportionality standard is something AI cannot yet satisfy
• A real case from Afghanistan where a second strike killed grieving civilians, and what it tells us about removing humans from the chain

When the machine sets the tempo and the human only shows up at the end, "human in the loop" starts to look less like oversight and more like a formality.

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