I'm Cal Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about living and working deeply

in an increasingly distracted world.

I'm here in my deep work, HQ, joined as always by my producer, Jessie, you know, Jessie

one thing that goes on in this town in DC that's rarely relevant to our show is the Supreme

Court, is obviously based here.

The week that we're recording this, which is the week before it comes out, is actually

one of the rare instances where the dealings of the Supreme Court are relevant to the type

of things we talk about.

Yeah, so I figure I can be like a sophisticated courtroom court watcher journalist today and

talk a little bit about this case, but it's an important case because it, in theory, could

reshape the internet.

No, I don't know if that's actually going to happen, but they're hearing a case that

in theory could reshape the internet.

And I wanted to talk about it briefly because I think it gets to some deeper ideas about

the internet that I would like to discuss.

So I want to load up here on the screen for those who are watching at youtube.com slash

calendar for media, this is episode 237, you'll see this on the screen, but for those who

are listening, I'll narrate this is from, this article is from the Times, this is Adam

Liptik's coverage of this course case, you did a good job at this, let me just talk

briefly about what's going on.

So I'm pulling from this New York Times summary to talk about what's going on in this case.

All right, the case in question, argued in the Supreme Court last week was brought by

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