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Pod Crashing 101 Episode 466 Will The U.S. Govt Enforce New Podcasting Laws · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Have you been to the podcast network at Aro dot
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Hey, what's going on? My name is Arrow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the host of the weekly podcast Podcrashing as well
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  Speaker 1: as Podcrashing one on one. These episodes connect listeners to
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  Speaker 1: podcast specialists around the world. The goal has always been
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  Speaker 1: to inform our podcast community with subjects that deal with
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  Speaker 1: everything and beyond, which pretty much explains what a podcast
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  Speaker 1: Podcrashing one on one has been around since March of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The original goal was to put focus on
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  Speaker 1: helping up and coming podcasters to have the right information
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  Speaker 1: about what it's really like to survive inside this world.
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  Speaker 1: The idea went fifty four episodes before I decided, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second, we're talking with the podcasters. Why aren't
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  Speaker 1: we sharing their personal stories? Right? Because it really is
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  Speaker 1: all about trying to lift up your game. The purpose
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  Speaker 1: your own platform, to promote it as well as earn money.
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  Speaker 1: This is podcrashing one on one. Here's a touchy subject
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  Speaker 1: for you. Will the US government eventually create a new
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  Speaker 1: department that gets podcasting and its messages into a book
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  Speaker 1: of laws and rules that must be abided by or
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  Speaker 1: face the consequences. Sounds like a big idea, right, I
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  Speaker 1: mean what if? Guess what? Such a rulebook is unlikely
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  Speaker 1: to be created, at least not in the way of
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  Speaker 1: American radio and television. As for creating a podcast department
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  Speaker 1: in the US government, that would be a political and
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  Speaker 1: legal lift, and there's no one around that's even interested
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  Speaker 1: in this department. Podcasting is a huge part of the
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  Speaker 1: open Internet. It's not a scarce public resource like that
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  Speaker 1: of radio, and that seems to matter a lot. In
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  Speaker 1: the world of US laws radio and television are regulated,
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  Speaker 1: whereas podcasting is free speech. This makes podcasting loosely governed
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  Speaker 1: by several laws that already exist. And yes, there are
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  Speaker 1: plenty of agencies that'll do all they can to enforce
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of direction if the rules truly were
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  Speaker 1: to tighten up. The one thing listeners wouldn't hear right
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  Speaker 1: now is how a government shut down has affected them.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a no. No makes people look bad.
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  Speaker 1: The elephant in the room would be demonization, limited reach,
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  Speaker 1: and required disclosure. Hey, coming up next, With no real
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  Speaker 1: rule book in place, how is podcasting even regulated? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to podcrashing one on one. With
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  Speaker 1: no rule book really in place, how is it that
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  Speaker 1: podcasting is even regulated? Very quietly is the answer. Those
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  Speaker 1: rules include the FTC, who clearly states advertising sponsorship disclosures
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  Speaker 1: are the go to when playing It's safe. You know
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  Speaker 1: you've heard it before. This episode is sponsored by copyright
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  Speaker 1: rules cannot and will not be broken. There are defamation lawsuits.
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  Speaker 1: You can't spread false news on your podcast. Election laws
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  Speaker 1: are something to obey influencing elections by accepting political money.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you have to play by the rules set by
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  Speaker 1: the platform owners such as iHeart, Spotify, Apple and even YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: It only feels like podcasting is lawless. Yeah it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Could it change, of course, making rules that clarify advertisers.
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  Speaker 1: Is it real or is it clickbait? I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: could be a platform accountability board that's put together. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a new rule. If I'm using AI, which I am,
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be disclosed. That is one of the
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  Speaker 1: rules that we're playing by today. Roles you won't see
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  Speaker 1: making podcasters get a license like we once did in radio,
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  Speaker 1: getting approval for production, seeing more fines because something you
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  Speaker 1: did and said cross the line. And you'll never see
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  Speaker 1: the FCC threatened podcasting like its regulated radio stations. But
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  Speaker 1: always remember there's changes on the horizon. I'm Meryl and
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  Speaker 1: that's podcas crashing one on one