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Episode 38•01:15:27•Mike McCue & Mike Masnick

How Social Media Platforms Use Regulation To Stifle Competition

How Social Media Platforms Use Regulation To Stifle Competition

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Are we regulating the wrong tech problems? Many opponents of Big Tech cheered recent lawsuits that found Meta and YouTube liable for violating consumer protection laws and designing their products to addict kids and teens.

But in the battle over user safety, is free expression going to end up as a casualty?

In this episode

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 2:45Section 230 and Regulatory Moats
  3. 7:10The History of Moral Panics and Technology
  4. 10:25From AOL Centralization to the Open Web
  5. 15:26The Hidden Costs of Losing Section 230
  6. 22:17GDPR and Unintended Consequences
  7. 27:36Lessons from the Meta Privacy and Safety Trials
  8. 33:24Internal Research Is Not a Scandal
  9. 38:22How Content Moderation Gets Weaponized
  10. 45:31The Case for Profile Portability
  11. 53:21Regulating Incentives vs. Mandates
  12. 1:03:56AI Regulation and the Risk of New Walled Gardens
  13. 1:10:38Replicating the Open Web's Success Flipboard Techdirt

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