Paul Watkins

Managing director of Potomac Global Partners. He previously founded the Office of Innovation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and headed up the Civil Litigation Division of the Arizona Attorney General's Office.

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Jul 9, 2021 • 1h 20min

Questions of Federal Preemption

Brendan Carr, a Commissioner at the FCC, Daniel Francis, a legal scholar at NYU, and Paul Watkins, Managing Director at Potomac Global Partners, dive into the complex world of state regulation of social media. They discuss tensions between federal preemption and state innovations in content moderation. The guests explore how varying state laws can create a regulatory patchwork and debate the role of the FCC. Insights into free speech implications, antitrust challenges, and the evolving legal landscape of big tech enrich this intriguing discussion.

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