Episode 323: Hats off to the French! (And I don't say that often.)




The Cyberlaw Podcast show

Summary: In our 323rd episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker is joined by Dave Aitel (@daveaitel), Mark MacCarthy (@Mark_MacCarthy), and Nick Weaver (@ncweaver) to discuss: French and Dutch investigators pulled off the coup of the year this April; The EARN IT Act went from Washington-controversial to Washington consensus in the usual way; The bad week TikTok had in its second biggest market. How it was banned in India and its days may be numbered elsewhere; Claims that being labeled a “hate speech” platform won’t just get you boycotted in Silicon Valley but by the credit card associations as well; Trump is deplatformed by Twitch this week and Reddit dumped his enormous subreddit for failure to observe its censorship rules; A questionable Trump administration effort to redirect $10 million in “freedom tool” funding from cryptolibertarians to Falun Gong coders; The latest man in the middle attack that requires the phone user to do nothing but visit a website; The strikingly sophisticated and massive international surveillance system now aimed by China at Uighers all around the world; And more! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.