A 🧵from Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Eric Fruits, Ph.D. on his 'modest proposal' to clear the decks on outstanding telecom controversies

Ahead of yet another Section 230 hearing today, it is worth considering the tradeoffs inherent in immunity, accountability, and collateral censorship (a short 🧵)

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There is a new AI proposal from Center for AI Policy. It should SLAM the Overton window shut.
It's the most authoritarian piece of tech legislation I've read in my entire policy career (and I've read some doozies).
Everything in the bill is aimed at creating a democratically

'This inquiry proposes a 'Hotel California' approach to carriage agreements, in which cable operators and DBS providers can check out, but they can never leave.' - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Eric Fruits, Ph.D., Ben Sperry, kristian stout & Geoffrey Manne

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If you support the newly proposed American Privacy Rights Act because it will eliminate the 'patchwork' of state privacy laws, but are skeptical of a top-down federal privacy mandate (as you should be!), read on! Jim Harper and I have a better solution. 🧵 1/19

Great piece on Murthy by former facebooker Matt Perault. He notes:

'Almost any time I was in a room in which a government official referenced a preferred outcome on a content question, I believed a threat was implied.'

'For now, it is critical to resist the urge to enshrine crude and blunt categories for the heterogeneous suite of technologies currently gathered under the broad banner of 'AI.'' - comments of Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's kristian stout to NTIA
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The hubris of the progressive elite is unmatched. When you spend yr life denigrating capitalism you believe mgmt has no value & anyone can run a successful business. All u need is some unorganized resources, some unionized workers & a few tax dollars. If it doesn’t work, just add

In a key #SchremsII #CloudAct decision,🇫🇷 Supreme Court (CdE) denied the request for interim measures against the CNIL authorization for Microsoft to host health data. The Court adopts a balanced, risk-based approach, as analyzed in my latest study
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ICLE filed an amicus brief urging the California Supreme Court to review the Gilead products liability case and reverse the Court of Appeal's remarkable theory of liability. laweconcenter.org/resources/icle…. 🧵 1/7

We Int'l Ctr Law & Econ filed our comments today in front of FTC on the NPRM for the COPPA Rule. We continue to argue that the focus on restricting the ability of children's content creators to monetize through targeted advertising is misplaced. a 🧵

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🌐 Lost in 🇪🇺 EU #AI Regulation? We Have the Solutions! 💡

👉 2️⃣ Visualisation Pyramid 🚀🤩

Today we unveil a comprehensive visualisation pyramid designed to shed light 🔍 on the logic & core content of the EU AI Act in a single, intuitive graphic.
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'Utility pole access could be the deciding factor in BEAD’s success, and we must take an 'all-of-the-above' approach to leverage BEAD funds to close the internet access gap for good.' - Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's kristian stout at Breakfast Media
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New from Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's kristian stout: the success of #BEAD & #InternetForAll requires an 'all-of-the-above approach” from federal, state, and local policymakers to take much-needed action on #pole reforms.
Read the full op-ed in Breakfast Media. 
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Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the 'needle') into a corpus of

'The bottom line is that the kinds of changes under consideration by both U.S. and EU policymakers may undermine innovation in the West.' - a 'tl;dr' explainer from Int'l Ctr Law & Econ's Dirk Auer & kristian stout

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The CCP is working to gain the technological high ground on America—and that includes their recent moves to leapfrog the U.S. when it comes to spectrum leadership.

Our national security depends on turning this around by licensing more midband spectrum.

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🚀 Exciting News: My Study on International Data Transfers & Foreign Governments' Data Access is Online! 🌐🔒

A must-read for data controllers, processors, practitioners, regulators, policymakers (esp. amidst EUCS negotiations) & all GDPR nerds! 📚💼

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