Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff) and was the Outside Lead Attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the US export restrictions on cryptography.
The National Law Journal named Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2018 Forbes included her as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.
Full Episode: https://disruptors.fm/154-why-freedom-of-speech-isnt-free-and-apples-helping-china-crackdown-on-hong-kong-protesters-in-the-name-of-profit-cindy-cohn
In today's episode we discuss:
- How censorship leads to authoritarianism
- Why freedom of speech is such a tricky tight rope
- What Apple's doing to help China crackdown on Hong Kong protesters
- How algorithms and content curation are ruining our lives, and society
- Why tech monopolies and failing markets make privacy so pathetic
- The realistic issues with breaking up big tech and better solutions to tech monopolies
- Why encryption is critical to the future of democracy
- The impossible problem of backdoors and security
- How the US government seeks to Chinese surveillance
- What to do about the Trump Twitter problem
- Why privacy is the big issue going forward
- Which tech giants worry Cindy most
- What to do about the collective action problem
- Why the implications of brain-machine interfaces terrify Cindy
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Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff) and was the Outside Lead Attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the US export restrictions on cryptography.
The National Law Journal named Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2018 Forbes included her as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.
Full Episode: https://disruptors.fm/154-why-freedom-of-speech-isnt-free-and-apples-helping-china-crackdown-on-hong-kong-protesters-in-the-name-of-profit-cindy-cohn
In today's episode we discuss:
- How censorship leads to authoritarianism
- Why freedom of speech is such a tricky tight rope
- What Apple's doing to help China crackdown on Hong Kong protesters
- How algorithms and content curation are ruining our lives, and society
- Why tech monopolies and failing markets make privacy so pathetic
- The realistic issues with breaking up big tech and better solutions to tech monopolies
- Why encryption is critical to the future of democracy
- The impossible problem of backdoors and security
- How the US government seeks to Chinese surveillance
- What to do about the Trump Twitter problem
- Why privacy is the big issue going forward
- Which tech giants worry Cindy most
- What to do about the collective action problem
- Why the implications of brain-machine interfaces terrify Cindy
VISIT THE DISRUPTORS FOR TONS MORE INTERVIEWS, TOPICS & GUIDES
https://disruptors.fm
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON iTUNES
https://disruptors.fm/itunes
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON ANDROID (Any Podcast App)
https://disruptors.fm/android
JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER + GET FREE AUDIOBOOK
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