RT @KouriCMarshall: I’ve worked with many awesome people and teams over the years. But, my colleagues at @ProgressChamber are simply superb and easy to work with. Talented and humble. Here is a few of us at #SOTN2023. https://t.co/sffGsOSyWi

"The goal here is to have a massive amount of oversight, so you don't have to take our word for it," #TikTok's security head Will Ferrell said at #SOTN2023. Which means much more than having a U.S. data center: "Every single line of code has to be inspected by Oracle and another third-party inspector certified b the U.S. government."

RT @jess_miers
If you're a student / early career professional here at #SOTN2023, come find me! Let's nerd-out and meet cool people. DMs open.

"When's the last time your ISP blocked you from a legal web site?" FCC commissioner Nathan Simington asks at #SOTN2023. "Your ISP isn't stopping you from connecting to any of those things."

That is a respectable argument against net-neutrality rules--that the danger of ISPs tampering with traffic is over. But if you make that, you have to admit that ISPs seriously talked for many years about doing just that.

Sometimes, you gotta be there for the right reasons. Lawmakers aren't always there for the right reasons. There are some good-faith lawmakers that want to deal with the right issues. #SOTN2023

RT @CathyGellis
Why is the ADL is comparing Internet platforms with a whole bunch of industries that have absolutely nothing to do with speech.

Comparing apples and sneakers.

#SOTN2023

RT @Ashkhen
Wow @YaelEisenstat says that automobile industry didn’t want to be regulated either. I forgot how automobile industry handled speech #SOTN2023

EARN It is more of an issue on an enforcement basis, rather than a section 230 issue. #SOTN2023

At at a #SOTN2023 panel featuring an exec from Amazon's upcoming Project Kuiper low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation, I asked how they planned to avoid having speeds bog down from demand in the way Starlink has. Public-policy director Darren Achord said he wasn't familiar with Starlink's issues (really?) but said that for Kuiper, it would be about "making sure that we're planning our deployment right and accounting for customer use cases as we scale." https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-speeds-continue-to-fall-in-the-us-canada-amid-network-congestion

RT @jrhuddles
At #SOTN2023 @billyez2 provides an excellent explanation of the impact SESTA/FOSTA had on certain Reddit communities and users

RT @JamesCz19
During this #Section230 panel - @billyez2 correctly calling to put down the political football that #Section230 has become. It’s important to look at root causes of issues being identified rather than scapegoating and blaming the tech sector. #SOTN2023

Congress has options available to it to look at things that are problematic where section 230 isn't a defense. #SOTN2023

Tuning in for Section 230: How will lawmakers seek to reform it #SOTN2023

RT @digiphile
Today, I learned at the State of the Net that @Twitter has deleted the @Policy account. I wonder if any @TwitterSafety or policy staff are here, as in past years.
The @internetarchive's @waybackmachine preserved over a decade of Internet policy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230221191731/twitter.com/policy #SOTN2023

RT @digiphile
Today, I learned at the State of the Net that @Twitter has deleted the @Policy account. I wonder if any @TwitterSafety or policy staff are here, as in past years.
The @internetarchive's @waybackmachine preserved over a decade of Internet policy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230221191731/twitter.com/policy #SOTN2023

Today at 19:30 UTC our Natalie Campbell will be joining a panel discussion at the State of the Net 2023 to talk about children's online safety. Join to learn how strong #encryption is critical to online safety and how some proposed bills actually reduce safety by weakening encryption: https://sched.co/1J9by

Live stream at https://www.stateofthenet.org/live/

#SOTN #SOTN2023

RT @CathyGellis
I do not understand why a speaker on this #SOTN2023 Section 230 panel is implying that Section 230 should somehow insulate platforms from being forced to respond to police demands for user data. It doesn't. It never did. It means we need MORE protection for platforms, not less.

A long and interesting debate going on about #Section230 that keeps coming back to "why should this industry get a pass?" There's a functional answer: because tech platforms are speech intermediaries. But there's also a political answer: Because that's what Congress decided to do when it wrote the law. The second answer doesn't seem like something a court should undo. #SOTN2023

RT @morar
A sign of the times? The (first of two) Section 230 panels at #SOTN2023 is so packed that it’s beyond “standing room”.

"Amen, amen, amen. My mother said whenever I hear someone say I prayer I should say amen." @SteveDelBianco is correct in saying religion has no place in section 230. #SOTN2023