🛰️ 🚀 ICYMI: The Rapid Rise of LEO Space-Based Internet: What Congress Should Know. Feat. FCC's Jay Schwarz, Scott Wallsten @techpolicyinst.bsky.social and Karina Perez @ccianet.bsky.social ➡️
📺 Watch youtu.be/OZOJVx_f4ug
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🎧 Listen netcaucus.org/listen/

Confession: I appropriated the @SOTN theme ""More Than Meets the AI" from last year's @ILPFoundry's Trivia Night. @CenDemTech's won "Best Team Name" with it. CDT won again this year with "Love A(I)sland USA." Expect that to be your 2027 SOTN theme! #sotn26

22nd year in a row. Starting soon. #sotn26

🔋 Inside Tuesday’s AI–Energy Congressional Briefing: With data centers, AI energy needs, and affordability in the headlines, our AI Energy experts laid out the key issues.➡️
📺 Watch youtu.be/Pe3LhB6yQTw
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Join me in DC to start 2026 at #SOTN2026.

Want to help plan the 2026 State of the Net Conference. We're hiring a fellow. Apply on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/...

If you missed it C-SPAN covered our panel "Rethinking The FCC’s Video Regulations In The Age Of Streaming."
We've posted the video, audio, and transcript.
📺 youtu.be/LUV6LqD_HjU
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🔈https://netcaucus.org/listen/
#FCCVideo #Streaming

The @ilpfoundry.bsky.social Internet Law Trivia Night is back on Wed July 30. Get your tix.

🏆 The best in Internet Law and Policy will battle head to head. Join quizmaster @kurtopsahl.bsky.social, Foundry fellows, and DC’s Internet Law and Policy community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/foundry-tr...

🚨 THREAD: What does is mean to preserve online expression in the digital age? Here are 4 key takeaways from our Hill Briefing, “The Future of Online Expression In The Trump Era: Freedom vs Regulation” #OnlineSpeech
Full video/audio here 👇 1/
www.netcaucus.org/event/online...

This should be quite a discussion.

The new co-chairs of the Congressional App Challenge in the House for the 119th Congress. Rep. Brett Guthrie and @repkimschrier.bsky.social, appointed by the Internet Caucus co-chairs Rep. Michael McCaul and @rephaleystevens.bsky.social www.congressionalappchallenge.us/congressiona...

📺 Watch Live: Future of Kids Online Safety. Congressional Internet Caucus congressional briefing. bit.ly/onlinesafety...
📅 Thurs. March 13, 2025
⏰ 12 PM ET
Speakers: Ash Johnson @itif.org, Andrew Zach @famonlinesafety.bsky.social, Maureen Flatley, Common Sense Media, Miranda Nazarro @thehill.com.

Rep. Michael McCaul has appointed @rephaleystevens.bsky.social to succeed frm. Rep. Anna Eshoo as co-chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus. We look forward to working with her.

📺 What Will Tech Policy Look Like in the 119th Congress? Rayburn lunch event January 29! 📅 Watch live with Kellee Wicker @thewilsoncenter.bsky.social , Amy Box @netchoice.bsky.social Evan Swarztrauber FAI, Sara Collins @publicknowledge.bsky.social
RSVP: lu.ma/ns519y6m #TechPolicy119

Rep Anna Eshoo delivered her final floor speech yesterday. Founding Member of the Congressional Internet Caucus in 1996. Co-chaired it since 2011. Co-founded the Congressional App Challenge in 2015. Thank you, Rep. Eshoo, for your leadership!
Final floor speech here: www.c-span.org/video/?c5145...

Elections in the Age of AI: Analyzing 2024 and Shaping Future Campaigns SPEAKERS - Kara Frederick, Director, Tech Policy Center, The Heritage Foundation - Jennifer Huddleston, Senior Fellow in Technology Policy, Cato Institute - Tim Harper, Senior Policy Analyst and Project Lead, Elections and Democracy, Center for Democracy & Technology - Oma Seddiq, Technology Policy Reporter, Bloomberg Government (moderator)

📺 Video from How Did AI Impact Voters and Campaigns?" is up. Speakers: @jrhuddles.bsky.social Tim Harper @cendemtech.bsky.social Kara Frederick and Oma Seddiq @bloomberg.com. #TheAIElection
📺 bit.ly/aielection

Elections in the Age of AI: Analyzing 2024 and Shaping Future Campaigns · Luma 2024 was the first election since the emergence of powerful artificial intelligence models, and the dust is settling. Join a panel of election tech experts as…

🗳️ How did AI shape the election results? 🤖 Join our Congressional briefing where election tech experts - Tim Harper CDT, Jennifer Huddleston Cato, and Kara Frederick Heritage - discuss the first ever AI election.
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Last week I was so heartened to hear Richard Whitt express hope for the #worldwideweb as he discusses his new book "Reweaving the Web" with Evelyn Remaley. So many great ideas. Buy it www.amazon.co.uk/Reweaving-We...

As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the 'fediverse' | TechCrunch A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which describes

I am looking forward to learning more about Evan Prodromou's Social Web Foundation.
techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/a...

The @CongressionalAC director Joe Alessi addressing the #CongressionalHackathon and announcing @NationalAppChallenge day! #Congress4CS

TIL that the 2003 mission to capture Saddam Hussein was codenamed OPERATION RED DAWN.

8 takeaways from "What Policymakers Need to Know About the Fediverse" on Medium. Everything from privacy to content moderation to antitrust safe harbors to cryptocurrencies. Read here www.decentralizedfuturecouncil.org/2024/07/8-ta...

📺 Watch live the Hill briefing on #NetChoice #SCOTUS decisions live today at 12pm in Rayburn. With Steve DelBianco (NetChoice), Yael Eisenstat, Olivier Sylvain, Vera Eidelman ACLU, & Nadine Farid Johnson. How did #SCOTUS decide Moody vs @NetChoice vs Paxton? Watch bit.ly/scotus1sta #SCOTUSTech

The Fediverse And The Future Of Social Media: What Policymakers Need To Know PANELISTSHillary Brill, Professor, Georgetown University LawMike Masnick – CEO, Floor64, editor, Techdirt blogAmy James – Co Executive Director, Web3 Working...

Tech journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social is as excited as us about the "fediverse" maybe, just maybe, creating a more positive vision for the future of the Internet. Check his June 20 edition of Platformer. Check out our What Policymakers Need to Know #Fediverse event www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9YM...

To all the grammar geeks out there, is "who're" a commonly used contraction? It was used in an @Axios piece about Biden's performance. Even if it's not common, is it a good word choice given the alternative, "who are" includes the same number of characters.

House briefing on #NetChoice #SCOTUS decisions 7/12 in Rayburn and livestream. With Steve DelBianco (NetChoice) Yael Eisenstat Olivier Sylvain @fordhamuniversity.bsky.social Vera Eidelman (ACLU). How did #SCOTUS decide Moody vs @NetChoice vs Paxton? RSVP to find out: scotus1sta.eventbrite.com

Supreme Court to weigh adult industry’s challenge to Texas law The Supreme Court has indicated it will take up a case next term involving the adult entertainment industry’s challenge to a Texas law requiring pornography sites to implement age-verification meas…

27 years after ACLU vs Reno and 15 years after #SCOTUS denied cert regarding COPA, age-verification is back at the Court. thehill.com/policy/techn...

🏆 Get ready DC people! #FoundryTrivia is coming July 23! 🎟️ Tickets go on sale tomorrow. The amazing quizmaster @kurtopsahl.bsky.social is coming east to MC. Follow @ilpfoundry.bsky.social for details. It's going to be epic.

The video of "The #Fediverse, What Policymakers Need To Know" is now online, along with transcript. The expert panel featured Amy James, @mmasnick.bsky.social, Hillary Brill, and @rbs.io @eff.org.
📺 Watch youtu.be/B9YMvDeJM2U
👓 Read Transcript dfcouncil.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/u...

The #Fediverse is rising! What do policymakers need to know? Join us 6/11 where Amy James, @mmasnick.bsky.social, Hillary Brill, and @rbs.io @eff.org break it all down. #threads #mastadon #bluesky RSVP fediversepolicy.eventbrite.com