[fidotron]

“Online services that offer podcasts must register; however, individuals who use social media to share podcasts do not.”

They only want to control the means by which podcasts are distributed.

[factorialboy]

Micro censorship. Step by step.

How does one really define a podcast anyway? Me hosting any audio file which is not music and has people talking?

[joshspankit]

As the “services that offer podcasts” can bit a bit of a racket, it’s possible that putting your podcast on your own website classifies your website as an “online service” and therefore that controls independent creators