Tech Policy Podcast

Host Corbin Barthold discusses the campaign by states like Arkansas, Texas, and Utah to age-gate the Internet. As Corbin explains, these states are taking aim at a number of recent Supreme Court decisions, including Reno v. ACLU (1997), Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004), Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011), and even (!?) 303 Creative v. Elenis (2023).Corbin on the importance of Reno v. ACLUPaul Matzko on the notorious “fairness doctrine”Scholarly criticism of the “scarcity rationale”Corbin on Texas’s H.B. 1181FedSoc event on age-verification lawsCandeub, Morell, and Toscano in defense of age-verification lawsMore from Candeub, Morell, and ToscanoMore from Candeub