David Sullivan

periodic refreshing ;-)

Google SRAR is up: storage.googleapis.com/transparency...

Attention #DigitalServicesAct nerds, we've published a position paper for consultation on Article 21 Out-of-court dispute settlement 👇

ICYMI!

@noupside.bsky.social & I had a great chat today on @lawfaremedia.org about the EU fining X €120 M for violations of the Digital Service Act (DSA)

We run down:

* what the DSA is (and isn't)
* what these fines are actually about & how they'll play out
* why this isn't about censorship

Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.

That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/

can't bring myself to like this, so i'm commenting instead 😖

The lunacy of the trump administration's ludicrous "censorship" fixation is going to run headfirst into efforts to actually keep kids (and adults) safe online. 🤦‍♂️

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With children increasingly online and using more devices, age assurance has become a critical tool for protection against online harms.

DTSP ED @davidsullivan.bsky.social co-authored a piece in IAPP that explores and outlines different methods for implementing age assurance.

My latest, for @iapp.bsky.social:

"Mind the gap: Understanding age verification and assurance"

Fun teaming up with Basia, Katelyn, and Melanie to co-author this one!

Some reflections on the Sony v. Cox oral arguments (but read @mrose.ink's live posts for more detail)!

The facts for Cox looked bad. Clement, for Sony, made reference three times to what he called the "F the DMCA" email sent by one employee (which did not, in fact, say "F"). 1/

Same here.

Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.

Conspiratorial fantasists are the actual threat to freedom of expression.

The Best Diss Track of 2025 Is From a Video Game Hades II’s composer channeled “the evil band from Jem and the Holograms” for the game’s epic siren battle.

This song has been stuck in my head for weeks!

Happening in an hour! Come nerd out with us on trust and safety standards...

Next week - join our webinar on trust and safety standards! With reflections from regulators, practitioners, and academic experts.

cc @aaron.bsky.team

Pamela Samuelson giving a keynote at Silicon Flatironz

Wide shot of Pamela Samuelson and a slide

All of the copyright experts are here in Boulder today, with @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social giving a treatise on disruptive tech, copyright, and genAI

📊 The #DSA data access portal is live, and VLOPs/VLOSEs have begun publishing their data catalogues.
Trying to collect the links again: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

looking forward to the AI and Copyright jamboree that Blake Reid is bringing to Boulder next month!

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Zero regrets unsubscribing from the Pod Save cinematic universe after the 2024 election.

Congratulations @chinmayiarun.bsky.social!

FAQs: DSA data access for researchers Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic...

Belated happy DSA Data Access Day to all who celebrate!! October 2 was the first day that national regulators could start formally reviewing researcher applications for Art. 40.4 access to platforms' internally held data. (Bc that was 3 months after the Delegated Act came out).

Today's Lawfare Daily is a @scalinglaws.bsky.social episode where @kevintfrazier.bsky.social spoke to @davidsullivan.bsky.social and Rayi Iyer about the evolution of the Trust & Safety field and its relevance to ongoing conversations about how best to govern AI. youtu.be/6irBgNfwmdc?...

in this conversation with Kevin and Ravi, I used "clippy" as a verb

Currently overwhelmed with UNGA humblebrags.

Remind me to deactivate my account 2 weeks after the next Davos!

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

To build a safer AI product, where should companies focus their governance efforts?

On @lawfaremedia.org's Scaling Laws podcast DTSP ED @davidsullivan.bsky.social emphasizes how AI companies must break down the silos between AI safety and Trust & Safety teams.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scal...