ListenSourcesas of 2026-09-16
- JAKE HURFURT: The Truth Behind the Viral Police Doorstep Raid
A shocking video of police turning up on the doorstep of a teenager's home went viral in 2025. Officers demanded devices, barged into the house, and seized a young girl's phone over an unverified social media allegation. Jake Hurfurt of Big Brother Watch investigated what happen…
- Open Stacks, Federation, and the Changing Landscape of Software
Hosts Robert Jacobi and Dave Lockie have a conversation about AI impacts, open source priorities, data privacy, and emerging alternative network technologies
- Make Your Own Thing
John Gruber has been writing Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter of a century, analyzing and cataloging a distinct array of internet ephemera, designer nerdery, and, of course, the meteoric rise of Apple. He joins Jim to talk about what the pre-platform internet felt like, the …
- Ep. 282: Breaking down our 2027 College Free Speech Rankings
Harvard, institutional neutrality, how we determine the rankings, partisan censorship, how schools can improve their ranking, and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:18 Learn about our inaugural Soapbox conference 04:02 Preorder Nico's book Free Speech Generation 5:00 Check out FIR…
- Reported to Prevent, Ousted from Job & Cancelled: REVD DR BERNARD RANDALL
In this episode of The Free Speech Union podcast, Connie Shaw speaks with Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, who underwent a seven-year battle after delivering a sermon encouraging pupils at Trent College in Nottinghamshire to think critically and respect diverse viewpoints on sex and…
- Ep. 281: What's the First Amendment's original meaning? w/ Jud Campbell and Stephen Solomon
The First Amendment is only 45 words long. But more than 200 years and thousands of court decisions later, we're still arguing over a basic question: what do those words mean — and what did they mean to the early Americans who adopted them? To look through history and debate wha…
- Corina Shields: Independent Media and the Stories Nobody Covers
Corina Shields returns to Free to Speak. As producer of Shubz Says So, she helped build one of the most talked about shows on independent New Zealand radio. Then she walked away from the station that carried it, and tells Dane Giraud why. Shields gives her account of the arrange…
- A Bad Idea Until You Think About It
Paul Frazee and Daniel Holmgren return to the livestream to discuss their recent posts that got them thinking a bit more deeply about work on the protocol and just what atproto is building towards.
- Navigating Chaos in Tech Communities and New Approaches to SaaS and Sales
A candid conversation on contributor day turned hackathon, Cloudflare, product pivots, and the realities of founder-led sales.
- Andrew Doyle: How Blasphemy Laws Are Returning as 'Harm' and 'Islamophobia' | Free to Speak
Comedian, broadcaster and author Andrew Doyle, creator of the satirical persona Titania McGrath, joins Dane Giraud to unpack how Britain is sliding back towards blasphemy law, not by name, but through the language of "hate," "harm" and "Islamophobia" - and why that should worry …
- What if Social Media Was Good for You? Taylor Lorenz, Reggie COUZ, and Rabble
At VidCon 2026, journalist Taylor Lorenz, sat down with Rabble and creator, Reggie COUZ, to discuss social media’s bad reputation and explore whether it’s possible for social media to actually be good for you. In their chat, they make a case for a different path forward not just…
- Learning from Twitter’s Chaos for Divines Comeback!
The tables have turned! In this episode, CEO of VidCon Jim Louderback asks Rabble about his time as Twitter’s first employee, the chaotic rise of social media, and what the future of a decentralized social media world can look like. Rabble talks about what he learned and how he'…
- Building the internet you want to find, with Search Engine's PJ Vogt
Dot Social’s Mike McCue talks to PJ Vogt, host of the Search Engine podcast. PJ is also a co-founder of the Forkiverse, a Mastodon instance launched with the Hard Fork team as an experiment in community and a concrete way to show how a decentralized social network can work. The…
- Mastodon’s First and Next 10 Years, with Executive Director Felix Hlatky
As Mastodon celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2026, the open source platform’s new Executive Director, Felix Hlatky, is focused on what it’ll take to make the next 10 years even more impactful. That vision includes an overhaul in version 5.0, a new feature called Collection…