Otherwise Objectionable

Episode 8: Prescriptions to Save the Internet

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?

Episode 7: The Future of Speech Online

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.

Episode 6: The Rest of the World

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

Episode 5: Blowback, and the Dust Settles

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.

Episode 4: The Solution

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?