Illegitimi non carborundum

The U.S. Capitol Police

Definitely understandable there’s some confusion with everything going on at LoC but USCP was pretty clear about this one

It’s been debunked

Which part of this is confirmation? Seems like USCP denied that anything happened?

You should take this down as it’s been firmly debunked and yet the rumor is spreading like wildfire

Capitol Police have also confirmed there was no “standoff”

This is fake news and has been confirmed by DOGE as such

USCO is a subagency of the Library Congress and DOGE (as part of OMB) has no control. Even the President only has limited control over who runs USCO

Getting this much positive engagement on a post using Portland as a case study for the Democratic Party, putting scare quotes around “crime,” and citing a Trump is Literally Hitler reading group is my “anecdata” that this place is still mostly an echo chamber

If you think the discourse on this platform is remotely representative of the broader public then you’re sorely mistaken

🚨 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/
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Hopefully Congress will follow President Trump's lead and reorganize USAGM to cut the fat and better support the programs that work

Whether it's breaking through the CCP's Great Firewall, letting Iranian dissidents communicate privately, or simply giving me the tools to make an embarrassing Google search without being tracked, OTF is one of our best investments

Ronald Reagan once called America’s ability to communicate with the world “one of the most potent weapons in our arsenal.

Today, that power lies in VPNs, encryption, and the open Internet!

🚨 90 percent of VOA and RFE/RL’s audiences access content via OTF-supported technologies

🚨 OTF-backed Psiphon VPN’s daily users to spike from 48,000 to 1.5 million in a matter of months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Some quick numbers:

🚨 Use of OTF tools quadrupled in the last 3 years from 9 million users to over 40 million today

🚨 Costing only 7¢ per user, OTF is the most cost effective USAGM program

🚨 OTF only receives 5% of USAGM's budget

While other projects like the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have seen declining viewership and effectiveness over the past two decades, OTF-funded tools have ballooned in usage

Have you ever used @torproject.bsky.social? What about @signal.org? @wireguard.bsky.social?

You can thank OTF

In an increasingly digital world, internet freedom has become an essential component of personal freedom and OTF's goal is to support projects that help people communicate and access the free and open web

Quick 🧵 on why @opentechfund.bsky.social is awesome and why it's important that President Trump decided to save it at the last minute

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Mark Graham (@mark.bsky.social), director of the #WaybackMachine, explains how the Wayback Machine archives over half a billion pages daily to ensure vital information remains accessible.

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/ETpNMXeiR7c

#InternetArchive #DigitalHistory #Preservation

Enabling a Thriving Middleware Market For middleware to flourish, policymakers must align market incentives, address regulatory barriers, and encourage platform cooperation.

Next in our Regulating Social Media symposium:

@lehogg.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social analyze what it would take for #middleware to flourish:
- align market incentives
- address regulatory barriers &
- encourage platform cooperation

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Join us: The Future of Online Expression In The Trump Era: Freedom vs Regulation" lunch with @ashkhen.bsky.social, Jenna Leventoff @aclu.org, Chris Marchese @netchoice.bsky.social, @lehogg.bsky.social
@fai.bsky.social.
📅 Wed, April 23
⏰ 12:00 PM
📍 Rayburn Building & Online
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Francis Fukuyama's "middleware" concept offers an intriguing solution to the unchecked political influence of social media platforms.

Great to see there's a new report out on it edited by @noupside.bsky.social & @lehogg.bsky.social

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I still struggle to understand how a democratically elected government doing things “experts in democracy” don’t like is a threat to democracy

Why 2024 Was The Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns | TechPolicy.Press According to a new report, 2024 was the worst year for internet shutdowns, with governments imposing at least 296 outages in 54 countries.

2024 was the worst year for internet shutdowns, with governments imposing at least 296 outages in 54 countries. Ramsha Jahangir (@ramshajahangir.bsky.social) at Tech Policy Press on the key findings from Access Now's new report launched at #RightsCon:

Blanket assertions that age verification introduces unique privacy and security risks are incorrect. The internet has changed dramatically since the early 2000s and the policy conversation around age verification should change accordingly

Here's an example of how such a system could work in practice:

By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, fully homeomorphic encryption techniques, trusted execution environments, and double blind architecture, we can establish a model for age verification that is both effective and secure

The much better way to do age verification is to implement it at the level of the operating system and (on mobile) the app store