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Billy Easley II

@billyez2
14 posts
2026-03-03
Easily my least favorite piece I've read from stratechery. Dismissive of the law's power, Neo-Brandesian in its analysis of public and corporate power dynamics. This is not the way
2026-03-03 View on X
Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...

Easily my least favorite piece I've read from stratechery. Dismissive of the law's power, Neo-Brandesian in its analysis of public and corporate power dynamics. This is not the way
2026-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

2024-12-01
Since we're telling stories: Meta revealed Libra to a bunch of DC thinktank staffers (like me!) a week before it went public and everyone in the room thought it was a terrible time to release this iirc
2024-12-01 View on X
@davidmarcus

Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill”

For reasons you can guess at, debanking has been the topic du jour in my Twitter feed. Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : FinTech CEOs Expose How Feds Colluded In ‘Debanking’ Schemes ...

2024-11-30
Since we're telling stories: Meta revealed Libra to a bunch of DC thinktank staffers (like me!) a week before it went public and everyone in the room thought it was a terrible time to release this iirc
2024-11-30 View on X
@davidmarcus

Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill”

How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan's pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminde...

2024-02-27
With the exception of the Etsy discussion, there was way too much focus on the biggest social media sites in oral arguments
2024-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights

Update Tim Wu / New York Times : Big Tech's Latest Power Grab: the Constitution Washington Post : A roundup of the oral arguments made in the Supreme Court for two cases involving ...

Numerous times some of the Justices referred to “traditional social media” sites to refer to Twitter and Facebook but whether that's a reference to market power or the generalized discussion allowed on the platform, it's a bad way to refer to the scope of the laws
2024-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights

Update Tim Wu / New York Times : Big Tech's Latest Power Grab: the Constitution Washington Post : A roundup of the oral arguments made in the Supreme Court for two cases involving ...

This is a real problem because it warps the discussion. Not just when it comes to the burden, but also the regulatory discussion. You'll have law professors supporting 1A restrictions because they see it through a market power lens, which is super odd.
2024-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights

Update Tim Wu / New York Times : Big Tech's Latest Power Grab: the Constitution Washington Post : A roundup of the oral arguments made in the Supreme Court for two cases involving ...

2023-12-23
Wrote an antitrust paper last semester on a similar tension with Apple's ATT and its competitive impact on the ad ecosystem. It's a tough one to resolve
2023-12-23 View on X
New York Times

Sources: the US DOJ, which has an ongoing four-year-old probe into Apple's alleged anticompetitive behavior, has taken interest in Apple blocking Beeper Mini

Beeper Mini is officially giving up Federal Trade Commission : Interoperability, Privacy, & Security Beeper Blog : Beeper - Moving Forward Lauren Goode / Wired : A number of activi...

2021-11-20
@blakereid I think FB should get kudos when civil society informs them of policy violations that impact civil liberties and FB does something about it.
2021-11-20 View on X
NPR

Meta says it's looking at how users from marginalized communities experience its products and releases a paper on changes to how it uses US demographic data

2021-03-18
Sen. Schatz's staff are great and thoughtful but I think Masnick has it right - they've come up with this framework of moderating illegal content and AUP violations and they're sticking to it even if it doesn't work with a lot of platforms. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-18 View on X
Techdirt

A new version of the PACT Act, a bipartisan Section 230 reform bill, remains convoluted and bloated with destructive ideas that will spawn entirely new problems

which would kill off our community. The only thing the rules would do is (a) cost me a ton of money and (b) allow trolls to complain to me. Why?

2021-02-18
If the Australian law is bad what does a good deal for journalism and platforms look like? I haven't heard any persuasive policies. https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-18 View on X
About Facebook

Ahead of proposed media law, Facebook bans Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and viewing news on Australian news Pages

In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing …

2020-12-21
Fellow criminal justice policy wonks - what do you think about making it easier to establish personal criminal liability against CEO's and white collar workers? Or pushing agencies to do? Not just talking about Facebook or Google btw https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-21 View on X
BIG

Google and Facebook may continue predatory behavior for years as antitrust cases play out, which can be deterred by filing criminal charges against their execs

Matt Stoller / BIG : Tweets: @halsinger , @billyez2 , @benedictevans , @gretchenspeters , @iwelsh , @jason_kint , @moonalice , @matthewstoller , @matthewstoller , @matthewstoller ...

Fellow criminal justice policy wonks - what do you think about making it easier to establish personal criminal liability against CEO's and white collar workers? Or pushing agencies to do? Not just talking about Facebook or Google btw https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-21 View on X
New York Times

Profile of Dina Srinivasan, who is helping Texas AG's antitrust investigation of Google after her treatises on Facebook and Google reframed antitrust thinking

Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google …

2020-06-18
Google's decision to apply it's de-monitizing policy to comments sections is dumb and is going to lead more trouble for them. Anyway, I'm glad this got cleared up somewhat. https://www.techdirt.com/...
2020-06-18 View on X
Techdirt

No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias

from the another-day-another-story dept  —  So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero He...