Otherwise Objectionable
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 8: Prescriptions to Save the Internet
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our panel of experts — Charles C.W. Cooke from the National Review, trust and safety expert Dave Willner, Mike Masnick from Techdirt, and CEI’s Je...
Episode 7: The Future of Speech Online
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of A.I. has ushered in a new era for the internet, right when Section 230 and its protections have never been more threatened. Today’s inno...
Episode 6: The Rest of the World
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The web gets big enough to impact presidential elections. And the rest of the world grapples with speech on the internet.
Episode 5: Blowback, and the Dust Settles
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first real attempt to regulate the internet goes down in flames. But what remains is a structure to support the new, more interactive world of Web...
Episode 4: The Solution
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bill intended to keep smut off the internet threatens to undo everything Representatives Christopher Cox and Ron Wyden have accomplished. How will t...
Episode 3: Law and Disorder
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enter the dotcom era. Dueling lawsuits leave early web companies with a massive question — can they moderate speech without getting sued off the fac...
Episode 2: The Dawn of the Internet
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We travel back in time to the birth of the world wide web to hear how the earliest forums sparked a war over the future of free speech on the internet...
Episode 1: The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pundits and politicians blame an obscure law for everything bad that happens online. What exactly is Section 230, and how did it spark a debate that c...
Introducing Otherwise Objectionable
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, two Congressmen drafted a bill that would give us the internet as we know it. Now Democrats and Republicans want it gone. Follow the true sto...