• Episode 8: Prescriptions to Save the Internet
    Apr 30 2025

    Our panel of experts — Charles C.W. Cooke from the National Review, trust and safety expert Dave Willner, Mike Masnick from Techdirt, and CEI’s Jessica Melugin — dissect this podcast’s raison d'être. What have we learned? Where are we now? And where are we going?

    Show More Show Less
    42 mins
  • Episode 7: The Future of Speech Online
    Apr 23 2025

    The rise of A.I. has ushered in a new era for the internet, right when Section 230 and its protections have never been more threatened. Today’s innovators look to the past for guidance.

    Show More Show Less
    31 mins
  • Episode 6: The Rest of the World
    Apr 16 2025

    The web gets big enough to impact presidential elections. And the rest of the world grapples with speech on the internet.

    Show More Show Less
    24 mins
  • Episode 5: Blowback, and the Dust Settles
    Apr 9 2025

    The first real attempt to regulate the internet goes down in flames. But what remains is a structure to support the new, more interactive world of Web 2.0.

    Show More Show Less
    30 mins
  • Episode 4: The Solution
    Apr 2 2025

    A bill intended to keep smut off the internet threatens to undo everything Representatives Christopher Cox and Ron Wyden have accomplished. How will their compromise play out?

    Show More Show Less
    25 mins
  • Episode 3: Law and Disorder
    Mar 26 2025

    Enter the dotcom era. Dueling lawsuits leave early web companies with a massive question — can they moderate speech without getting sued off the face of the earth? Two tech-savvy Congressman just might have an answer.

    Show More Show Less
    29 mins
  • Episode 2: The Dawn of the Internet
    Mar 19 2025

    We travel back in time to the birth of the world wide web to hear how the earliest forums sparked a war over the future of free speech on the internet.

    Show More Show Less
    26 mins
  • Episode 1: The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet
    Mar 12 2025

    Pundits and politicians blame an obscure law for everything bad that happens online. What exactly is Section 230, and how did it spark a debate that could change the internet forever?

    Show More Show Less
    41 mins