136. Rick Lane: Creating a Safe, Secure & Sustainable Internet.
Rick Lane
October 8, 2020
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Today we’re speaking with Rick Lane about Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Topics include:
How the Communications Decency Act is related to National Security
How hostile governments are able to use our own laws as cover for geopolitical influence operations
Why platforms have an economic incentive to ignore illegal activity
Why the malfeasance we think of thriving on the “dark web” is actually happening, right now, the sunshiny space of social platforms.
If platforms are “publishers” and have a ‘duty of care’
How platforms’ large lobbying budgets and control of search algorithms is shaping legislation and public opinion.
Rick Lane a strategic advisor and the CEO of Iggy Ventures LLC.
Rick has worn many hats in his career including coordinating the development and implementation of 21st Century Fox and News Corporation’s public policy activities and serving as an executive producer for Mary Mazzio’s documentary film “A Most Beautiful Thing”.
He’s an expert on the future of work, looking at how a range of technologies are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds and how they impact all disciplines, economies and industries.
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