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Otherwise Objectionable
Otherwise Objectionable
Competitive Enterprise Institute

The true story of the most misunderstood law on the internet. Tech journalist Mike Masnick brings you inside the making of Section... more

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Episodes

Episode 6: The Rest of the World

The web gets big enough to impact presidential elections. And the rest of the world grapples with speech on the... more

16 Apr 2025 · 24 minutes
Episode 5: Blowback, and the Dust Settles

The first real attempt to regulate the internet goes down in flames. But what remains is a structure to support... more

09 Apr 2025 · 30 minutes
Episode 4: The Solution

A bill intended to keep smut off the internet threatens to undo everything Representatives Christopher Cox and Ron Wyden have... more

02 Apr 2025 · 24 minutes
Episode 3: Law and Disorder

Enter the dotcom era. Dueling lawsuits leave early web companies with a massive question — can they moderate speech without... more

26 Mar 2025 · 29 minutes
Episode 2: The Dawn of the Internet

We travel back in time to the birth of the world wide web to hear how the earliest forums sparked... more

19 Mar 2025 · 25 minutes
Episode 1: The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet

Pundits and politicians blame an obscure law for everything bad that happens online. What exactly is Section 230, and how... more

12 Mar 2025 · 41 minutes
Introducing Otherwise Objectionable

In 1996, two Congressmen drafted a bill that would give us the internet as we know it. Now Democrats and... more

25 Feb 2025 · 2 minutes