Daphne Keller (Stanford Cyber Policy Center) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) have a wide-ranging conversation about the impact of the EU’s Digital Services Act on content moderation, the costs and benefits of platform transparency, the pervasiveness of complexity, the work of James C. Scott, Germans’ abiding thirst for data, the Burmese heroin trade, and more. For more, see Daphne’s recent article in Lawfare, “The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform.”

Topics include:

• Big Tech and the DSA
• Daphne the investigative reporter
• A court case for every comment removal
• The EU: bean counter of human dignity
• James C. Scott appreciation day
• What does the DSA mean for the fediverse?
• Capitalism as a force for quantification
• Daphne’s metaphysics

Links:

The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform

The Humpty Dance