Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets

This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it’s weird phone season as soon as once more.

Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn speak to Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson in regards to the latest congressional hearing with the massive tech CEOs — this time about Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Dorsey attended the listening to over video in entrance of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Adi explains what everybody needed to say.

Within the second half of the present, Ashley Carman stops by to speak in regards to the latest episode of her video collection In the Making, which is about how stay buying channels like QVC and HSN are actually a brand new frontier for gadget corporations advertising and promoting their merchandise.

And naturally, The Vergecast had to slot in some smartphone speak. The wave of bizarre cellphone design has come again, and it doesn’t disappoint. Evaluations for the LG Wing and the brand new Motorola Razr are out, and for some cause, there’s a Yahoo phone.

This entire week of reports is captured on this episode of The Vergecast, so pay attention right here or in your most popular podcast participant to listen to all of it.

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