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Hugh Hewitt

@hughhewitt
26 posts
2025-05-30
Whaddaya know. The Federal Circuit temporarily pauses the Court of International Trade ruling on Trump tariffs. It was reckless of the district court to enter the injunction and I'm glad the Federal Circuit saw that. Made this point on @AmericaNewsroom w/ @DanaPerino and
2025-05-30 View on X
CNBC

A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower court ruling that struck down most of President Trump's tariffs

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2023-07-17
Xi's CCP is not subtle and it is not slow. Western companies need to do more than “decouple.” They ought to depart. If Xi forces conflict over Taiwan, their people and property will be in peril. Losses are foreseeable and won't be compensated by West govts https://www.ft.com/...
2023-07-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: US consulting firms like McKinsey and BCG split their IT systems to decouple China data, as Beijing expands anti-espionage rules and data regulation

2023-01-30
But if the @WSJ is correct in its reporting —https://www.wsj.com/... Google already very far behind the curve in making its case, if it has one, to be left alone. Ask yourself: Who speaks for Google on the lawsuit? Answer right now: No one. Very bad start for Google. 4/
2023-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ's assistant AG for antitrust, a longtime Google foe who filed the US anti-monopoly lawsuit to break up its ad business

https://www.wsj.com/... Google already very far behind the curve in making its case, if it has one, to be left alone. Ask yourself: Who speaks for Google on the lawsuit? Answer rig...

DOJ's suit against @Google is the @ATT break-up case of our time. As a young clerk on an AT&T break-up/access fee case before the D.C. Circuit, I was swamped by amicus briefs and that was a secondary case! The @Google case will consume entire careers. Some key points. 1
2023-01-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ's assistant AG for antitrust, a longtime Google foe who filed the US anti-monopoly lawsuit to break up its ad business

https://www.wsj.com/... Google already very far behind the curve in making its case, if it has one, to be left alone. Ask yourself: Who speaks for Google on the lawsuit? Answer rig...

2022-12-10
It is a publicly traded company whose executives testified to Congress and which made public statements and SEC filings on which investors relied. If you minimize any fraud in the filings or deception in testimony, you are encouraging every company to do the same. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias

Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …

It is a publicly traded company whose executives testified to Congress and which made public statements and SEC filings on which investors relied. If you minimize any fraud in the filings or deception in testimony, you are encouraging every company to do the same. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk says Twitter is working on an update that will show users if they've been “shadowbanned”, the reason why, and how to appeal

Nick Turner / Bloomberg :

2022-06-12
Extraordinary and under-reported story with far more real world significance than Elon Musk's bid for Twitter. Line up the “friend of freedom” awards. He gets them all. https://interestingengineering.com/ ...
2022-06-12 View on X
Politico

Elon Musk's Starlink has become an unexpected lifeline in Ukraine, on the battlefield and in the war for public opinion, impressing many Western militaries

UkraineX:  —  How Elon Musk's space satellites changed the war on the ground  —  From artillery strikes to Zoom calls,

2022-06-11
Extraordinary and under-reported story with far more real world significance than Elon Musk's bid for Twitter. Line up the “friend of freedom” awards. He gets them all. https://interestingengineering.com/ ...
2022-06-11 View on X
Politico

Elon Musk's Starlink has become an unexpected lifeline in Ukraine, on the battlefield and in the war for public opinion, impressing many Western militaries

UkraineX:  —  How Elon Musk's space satellites changed the war on the ground  —  From artillery strikes to Zoom calls,

2022-01-18
Chamath Palihapitiya owns 10% of the Golden State Warriors. The NBA forced Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers for racist remarks. Will it force Mr. Palihapitiya to sell his stake in ⁦@warriors⁩ or simply pretend he didn't say it? https://www.cnbc.com/...
2022-01-18 View on X
Insider

Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included

- Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.

Legacy media very slow to this story b/c it involves the CCP and much of legacy media fears the CCP, but the story is breaking through b/c of its sheer callousness: https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-18 View on X
Insider

Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included

- Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.

2021-10-25
“For all of Facebook's troubles in North America, its problems with hate speech and disinformation are dramatically worse in the developing world.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

“For all of Facebook's troubles in North America, its problems with hate speech and disinformation are dramatically worse in the developing world.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...

2021-10-07
Ooof @Facebook. Who is counseling you and your spokespeople to label the documents “stolen?” That smacks of attacking the whistleblower even if the allegation that the company is considering suing her is exaggerated (which I have to believe). L https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-10-07 View on X
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense

I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.

Ooof @Facebook. Who is counseling you and your spokespeople to label the documents “stolen?” That smacks of attacking the whistleblower even if the allegation that the company is considering suing her is exaggerated (which I have to believe). L https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-10-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Facebook has begun limiting internal info sharing and paused product rollouts in recent days as employees conduct “reputational reviews”

but since there's a current PR problem... https://www.wsj.com/... Karissa Bell / @karissabe : Interesting that these are “reputational” reviews, not ethical reviews or research rev...

2021-06-16
The arrival of Lina Khan as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission is very good news for anyone concerned with vast and still expanding power of #BigTech: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-06-16 View on X
New York Times

Biden names Lina Khan, an antitrust expert who wrote the “Amazon Antitrust Paradox”, as FTC chair, after the Senate voted 69-28 to confirm her as commissioner

Ms. Khan, who first attracted notice as a critic of Amazon, was confirmed by the Senate as a commissioner on the agency on Tuesday.

2021-06-13
Tesla agreed to what? What is wrong with American tech executives? What don't they get about the term “genocide?” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-06-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

China pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers

Beijing is calling on tech giants to share their information—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies in China as well

2021-05-12
As w/ Facebook's “supreme court,” this play by Google will not win public confidence. Too high a wall to scale on credibility given past record. The state AGs have to press on to bring Big Tech under scrutiny similar to that of regulated utilities. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-05-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies

Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @_jack_poulson , @alexhanna , @carissaveliz , @zeerakw , @hughhewitt , @taliaringer , @timnitgebru , @_alialkhatib , @edroso , @zoesch...

2021-05-04
The decision by @Facebook independent board on former President Trump is far less important than the debate underway on how to structure government oversight/regulation of #BigTech. Senator @HawleyMO new book “The Tyranny of Big Tech” is thus far more important to debate.
2021-05-04 View on X
CNN

The Oversight Board says it will announce its decision on Facebook's banning of Trump at 9AM ET on Wednesday, after receiving 9,000+ public responses

this would be a HUGE MISTAKE. Hugh Hewitt / @hughhewitt : The decision by @Facebook independent board on former President Trump is far less important than the debate underway on ho...

2021-04-06
“By design, the digital yuan will negate one of bitcoin's major draws: anonymity for the user.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-04-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

China is pitching the digital yuan as a way to soften the power of US sanctions, which are increasingly being used against Chinese companies and individuals

A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn't linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system

2020-12-30
Wow. I own some AMZN so am happy to see this: A $100bn quarter and massive advertising growth? Google will be sending this story around to antitrust regulators worried about GOOG's advertising “monopoly.” https://www.ft.com/...
2020-12-30 View on X
Financial Times

FactSet: Amazon's “other” business unit, which is made up almost entirely of its ads business, will make $21B in revenue in 2020, up 47% YoY

Dave Lee / Financial Times :