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This week on the Vergecast interview series, The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel sits down with Berin Sz\xf3ka, the president of TechFreedom. TechFreedom is a tech policy think tank based in Washington, DC that \u201cdigs deep into the hard policy and legal questions raised by technological change.\u201d\nBerin and Nilay have differed on a few issues regarding tech policy, like net neutrality, but what they do agree on is the state of the tech policy conversation \u2014 it\u2019s bad. Sz\xf3ka says Republicans he has previously worked with are now getting important topics like Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act wrong, and bad-faith politicians are misinterpreting it to try to score points and pass policy in their favor.\nHear Berin talk about what\u2019s happening now with legislation like Sen. Josh Hawley\u2019s platform moderation bills, why it\u2019s weird for conservatives to want to directly regulate speech on the internet, and how this might play out in the future. Below is a lightly edited excerpt of the conversation.\nSubscribe to Waveform with MKBHD at http://bit.ly/WaveformVergecast\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices