The technology sector’s rise in relevance, utility, and power in our lives and the international landscape has been increasingly self-evident over the 21st century. The past decade saw once-charming upstarts become behemoths who drew scrutiny from a wide range of critics. And the COVID-19 pandemic has only grown the sector’s salience and our dependence on their products, heightening the contradictory position. As we emerge from that pandemic with the rising awareness of this dependence, there are tons of questions about what happens next, which the Big Tech Ticket will address. James Rogers, a journalist with more than two decades covering the tech industry, will be the host of the Big Tech Ticket. The show will feature interviews with experts, decision makers, academics, and executives in the field, and will appear on Wednesdays.
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Among the many regulatory fronts facing tech is the question over Section 230 and the liability tech companies should face (or not) for the content hosted on their platform. The statute is 25 years old and coming under fire from all sides.
Eric Goldman, associate dean for research and professor at Santa Clara University school of law, and this week's guest, makes the case that this is just one front in a broader battle to regulate and destroy the internet as we know it. He makes the case for why Section 230 is the right framework as well as the least-worst option to the problem of "legal but awful" content, and lays out his concerns for the direction of our current political discussion.
Topics Covered
- 0:40 minute mark – Section 230 background
- 3:15 – Is Section 230 still appropriate, and how it got caught up in the ‘techlash’
- 7:30 – Is content moderation up to the task
- 10:30 – The balance between competitive fairness and regulation
- 14:00 – The bipartisan nature of the pressure on tech
- 16:00 – The looming Quibi-fication of the internet
- 21:30 – Section 230’s powerful framework and why it hasn’t failed
- 25:00 – The least-worst option, and returning to the ‘lawful but awful’ challenge
- 28:45 – Is online behavior/amplification worse than offline behavior?
- 32:30 – A prognosis for the regulatory landscape
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