Chris Lewis

Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner

President Trump prepares to create the power to tell you you have a job & are getting paid when you KNOW you are not.

NY Times: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
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Tech policy & #AI followers are anticipating new executive orders on AI from the President tomorrow. Excellent post from PK's @nickgarcia.bsky.social on our hopes & fears for tomorrow's announcements publicknowledge.org/hopes-and-fe...

#FairUse of a copyrighted work! great example Congressman @hankjohnson.house.gov

Gotta add this to the @recreatecoalition.bsky.social "Fair use on the hill" infographic! www.recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

Thanks to @markey.senate.gov‬, @cantwell.senate.gov, Marsha Blackburn, & Susan Collins for stripping the AI moratorium from Senate budget bill. This text would have hamstrung state efforts to protect consumers from things like deepfakes & robocalls for 5 years. This cut was the right thing to do.

US Senate Drops Proposed Moratorium on State AI Laws in Budget Vote | TechPolicy.Press The 99-1 vote followed the collapse of a compromise between Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).

Early Tuesday morning, the United States Senate voted 99-1 to pass an amendment to the budget bill removing the proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state laws on artificial intelligence. www.techpolicy.press/us-senate-dr...

THREAD: Congress wants to keep you to pay to know what local laws are. #DontPaywallTheLaw

My #juneteenth post from 2021, detailing an idea I posted in June 2020 to build a path towards racial healing clewis.medium.com/freedom-fort...

This Memorial Day weekend we remember those who died for our freedoms, including the freedom of speech. This letter shows our country's free speech is at risk again, and it calls for all of us in the United States to sacrifice and stand up for our freedoms www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis To Testify Before House Energy and Commerce on America’s Wireless Leadership Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

🔈 Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET, President & CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social will testify in the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing “Strengthening America’s Leadership in Wireless Technology.” His testimony will urge Congress to make FCC spectrum auction authority permanent.

...and that Evan Kwerel should have gotten the Nobel Prize for creating spectrum auctions. A GREAT story @jrosenworcel.bsky.social

Summary of @jrosenworcel.bsky.social final speech as FCC Chair: We got stuff done that put consumers first. ...plus thanks all the wonderful people who made that happen.

Here here! Thank you Chairwoman!

Now @jrosenworcel.bsky.social swan song. Starts with reminder that in 1st speech as (acting chair) focused on putting consumers, disabled and disenfranchised first. Based on today’s presentation, we did the work.

The mics definitely seem to be for the online fees, not for the room🤷🏽‍♂️

This is where prison phone stuff is covered. Serious work here thanks to Congress passing legislation in 2021. Also work on national suicide prevention hotline. Again, lots of technical stuff to help people connect and stay connected. Again, this is not stuff that just “happens” without #FCC regs

Congress did act to stop #DigitalDiscrimination in broadband deployment in the bipartisan Infrastructure Law... And the FCC obeyed that mandate, creating rules on digital discrimination. A great overview right now.

@publicknowledge.bsky.social continues to protect these rules in the court!

A Sustainable Path Toward Digital Equity Must Prioritize Broadband Affordability Assistance Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

Great presentation at FCC Open meeting on the successful #ACP program. Congress should be embarrassed it didn't continue this important program to connect low income Americans.

$23 million a day out of the pockets of Americans, for the last 229 days & counting! publicknowledge.org/a-sustainabl...

Congratulations to trailblazing Chair @jrosenworcel.bsky.social on her tenure! She's starting her last FCC meeting right now!

Commentary: FCC Commissioner Gets Hoodwinked About NewsGuard Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.

This is what freedom of the press looks like www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...

Thanks for sharing.this thread @nickgarcia.bsky.social. and thanks to @evangreer.bsky.social for your courage and for speaking up to the powerful

What Democrats Don’t Understand About Joe Rogan The future of American political engagement is barely political at all.

Finally a clear and smart take on the “podcast election” by @politico.com (which is not always smart, so this is welcome): www.politico.com/news/magazin...

These #CDL court decisions are making it harder to access knowledge in this country...and knowledge is power

Keep fighting the good fight @internetarchive.bsky.social!

Second Circuit Decision Limiting Book Lending Harms Libraries, Public Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

Seriously??? My tax dollars are paying for libraries to buy & own books in my community. Now they can't lend them to me electronically without paying a subscription too? Even though the library owns it & the author got paid?

Public Knowledge's statement: publicknowledge.org/second-circu...

Sixth Circuit Court Stay Decision Risks Consumer Protections, Net Neutrality Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

The judicial stay prevents the FCC’s #netneutrality rules & other important consumer protections from going into effect while the Court decides the merits of Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC, a suit filed by internet service providers opposing the rules. Read our full statement from @punk.cool below:

Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis delivers opening remarks at Emerging Tech 2024, hosted at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC

We're excited to announce that #EmergingTech2024 is now underway! @publicknowledge.bsky.social President & CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social delivers opening remarks.

The Affordable Connectivity Program is expiring. Blame Congress - Fast Company The bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program helped 23 million households get online. So why is Congress allowing funding to run out?

DAY 3 since the #ACP ran out of funding: Here's a good article about how Congress has failed low income broadband users. fastcompany.com/91115156/affor…
Shout out to our bipartisan champions who Congressional leaders need to follow: Senators Welch & Vance, Reps. Yvette Clarke & Brian Fitzpatrick

Shout it out your windows people!

#DontPaywallMyLaws

Public Knowledge Applauds NTIA for Developing Pathway To Boost Nation’s National Spectrum Strategy Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced its plan for implementing President Biden's National Spectrum Strategy to secure the future of U.S. wireless policy and innovation. Read our statement from @haroldfeld.bsky.social:

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Great explanation of broadband "subscription vulnerability" by @johnbhorrigan.bsky.social and why #ACP closed the digital divide for those who had broadband, but couldn't afford it
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WHEN will Congress renew #ACP funding? It runs out for over 20 million in April!

Here's my statement here: publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...