Corbin Barthold is TechFreedom’s Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation. Corbin clerked for the Hon. Steven D. Merryday (M.D. Fla.) and the Hon. Robert H. Cleland (E.D. Mich.). After his clerkships, he became an associate, and later a partner, in the Los Angeles office of Browne George Ross LLP, where he engaged in high-stakes complex litigation. He then served as Senior Litigation Counsel at Washington Legal Foundation, a D.C. public-interest firm, where his practice focused on appeals involving administrative law, the separation of powers, antitrust, and tech policy. Corbin received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He also holds a B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California, San Diego, and an Msc., with distinction, from the London School of Economics.
Corbin K. Barthold
Internet Policy Counsel and Director of Appellate Litigation
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Opinion Piece
Two Dogmas Of The Free Speech Panic
Antonio García Martínez recently invited me on his podcast, The Pull Request. I was thrilled. Antonio is witty, charming, and intimidatingly brilliant (he was a PhD student in physics at Berkeley, and it shows). We did the episode, and we had a great time. But we never got to an important topic—Antonio’s[...]
Corbin K. Barthold
July 21, 2022
Press Release
Don’t Let Texas Break the Internet, TechFreedom Urges Supreme Court
Last week, just two days after hearing oral argument, and without issuing an opinion, the Fifth Circuit stayed a district court order blocking enforcement of HB 20, Texas’s social media speech regulation—which means the law is now in effect, during litigation over its constitutionality.[...]
Corbin K. Barthold
May 18, 2022
Opinion Piece
The Quest for a Better Online “Community”
Remember Justine Sacco? In December 2013, while sitting in Heathrow Airport, she tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” She had 170 Twitter followers. No one reacted to her crude crack at her own entitlement. She boarded her flight. Eleven hours later, she[...]
Corbin K. Barthold
May 16, 2022
Press Release
Letting Texas’s Unconstitutional Online Speech Code Take Effect Is “Startlingly Radical”
Today, just two days after hearing oral argument, and without issuing an opinion, the Fifth Circuit stayed a district court order blocking enforcement of HB 20, Texas’s social media speech regulation. “This is a startlingly radical move,” said Corbin K. Barthold, TechFreedom Internet Policy[...]