Tech Policy Podcast

#360: Red States vs. Every SCOTUS Internet Precedent

Episode Summary

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. ACLU (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5v7p) Paul Matzko on the notorious “fairness doctrine” (https://tinyurl.com/dp98arda) Scholarly criticism of the “scarcity rationale” (https://tinyurl.com/mrywcs6n) Corbin on Texas’s H.B. 1181 (https://tinyurl.com/2ba82bbe) FedSoc event on age-verification laws (https://tinyurl.com/3xj49k9m) Candeub, Morell, and Toscano in defense of age-verification laws (https://tinyurl.com/2ay6p9e6) More from Candeub, Morell, and Toscano (https://tinyurl.com/4xaymek4) More from Candeub (https://tinyurl.com/bdespvua)

Episode Notes

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. ACLU

Paul Matzko on the notorious “fairness doctrine”

Scholarly criticism of the “scarcity rationale”

Corbin on Texas’s H.B. 1181

FedSoc event on age-verification laws

Candeub, Morell, and Toscano in defense of age-verification laws

More from Candeub, Morell, and Toscano

More from Candeub