Tech Law Insights with Ben Lee

Tech Law Insights with Ben Lee

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John is joined by Ben Lee, Chief Legal Officer of Reddit. They discuss Ben’s extensive career as a senior in-house lawyer in several of the most successful tech companies in the world. After earning degrees in physics and economics, Ben worked at IBM’s research lab, where he was intrigued by the way lawyers grappled with the impacts of technology on society. Ben then went to law school and began his career as a litigator at a New York law firm but left to work at the Legal Aid Society. Financial realities eventually led him back to private practice and then to a career in-house. At AT&T and NEC, Ben worked closely with pioneering computer scientists and handled complex IP matters involving emerging technologies like machine learning and AI. When he moved to Google, Ben advised on major projects like Chrome, Android, and Google Cloud at very early stages when their success was far from assured. Ben later joined Twitter during its early, fast-paced growth phase, managing litigation, IP, employment, and regulatory issues. He led Twitter’s lawsuit against the U.S. government over transparency for national security requests. Later, at Airbnb, Ben tackled challenging regulatory landscapes worldwide, and at Plaid, he advocated for consumers’ rights to financial data. At Reddit, Ben now oversees all legal functions for a vast online platform with over 100,000 user-created and moderated communities. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is vital to Reddit’s success. It provides that online users and platforms are generally not liable for content created by others. Section 230 protects Reddit’s content moderation decisions, the decisions of its volunteer community moderators and its individual users. Finally, Ben advises young in-house lawyers to remember that their job is not to just point out all potential legal risks in a project, but to help their teams manage those risks so they can build great products and move companies forward.

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麦喵儿
麦喵儿
2025.4.16
很好的话题,可惜都是蜻蜓点水地讲。Good topic but too general
冰激凌_aCNu:真的,我想好好听听互联网企业法务的一些事情,结果都是很水果说了几句就过了,说中国airbnb,就听到了一个challenging
编号2538
编号2538
2025.4.15
47:14 Lawyers need to get comfortable with risks.
岁一一
岁一一
2025.5.06
听不懂,大暄哥,我走了
学会了很多句,you know
whatyyyy
whatyyyy
2025.4.22
why no apple podcast