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Adam Conner

@adamconner.bsky.social
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Older but no wiser on a new social platform than the old ones. Professionally caring about the internet, doing tech policy at @americanprogress.bsky.social & @capaction.bsky.social but a poster first, always, and forever. Opinions are…you know the drill.

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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
After a brutal few weeks of work, of course I stayed up late writing about the afternoon before a three day weekend release of the TikTok Letters and my obsession with the TikTok ban non-enforcement for my new Substack, "The Fun's in the Fight." thefunsinthefight.substack.com/p/the-tiktok...
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Have you seen the insane disclosure Akamai had to make in their February SEC filings @reckless.bsky.social? It’s insane.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New from @nicole-alvarez.bsky.social and I, a new @americanprogress.bsky.social analysis of the Senate Commerce reconciliation bill’s rebranded “AI Pause,” & how contrary to the claim it’s optional for the new $500M in funding, the text implicates the entire $42.45B in BEAD broadband funding.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
No heroes here but this seems like a reasonable request from the Qataris?!? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Qatar is insisting that a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Doha specify that the aircraft’s transfer was initiated by the Trump administration and that Qatar is not responsible for any future transfers of the plane’s ownership, these people said.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Really great graphic visualization on the true cost of tariffs from @bloomberg.com in this story.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
oooh thanks for flagging. is this what you're referring to? www.ir.akamai.com/static-files...
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
To paraphrase a tweet I saw, I cannot believe 2025 was George Lucas’s redemption
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social of the indispensable @garbageday.email with the sobering truth in today's edition. "So this is it. Adapt or die. Or at the very least, die with some dignity." www.garbageday.email/p/yeah-it-s-...
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I am a tech policy expert and in reading this SCSP Memo to the President on AI Governance I truly have no idea what "Establish a National Kids’ Protection Officer Within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)" means. www.scsp.ai/wp-content/u...
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I have been in a hospital all day and haven’t eaten. Where can I eat at 11pm in Middletown, Delaware? A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Similarly, if the President just says, I am going to tell the Attorney General not to enforce this law, would a corporate legal department trust that? From a President who famously never changes his mind on anything or retaliates against his enemies?
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Any attempt to extend the ban has to convince the app stores and internet hosts that they're not violating the law and risking the massive fines. For example, the President can do a 90 day extension, (theoretically if things qualify) but is a corporate legal department going to risk that?
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The law says "shall be subject to pay a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed the amount that results from multiplying $5,000 by the number of users" which again means the fine could be less than $5k per US user but we're calculating max potential fines here. www.congress.gov/118/plaws/pu...
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
And actually the potential fine totals could be as high as $1.7 trillion dollars in fines since the bill identifies mobile app stores, apple and google, AND entering hosting, primarily oracle which supposedly hosted all TikTok US user data. So up to $850B for app stores and $850B for cloud hosts.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Legend. Charlie Brown Christmas skit coins the phrase “Snoopy look like a bitch to you?”
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
As someone married to a Philadelphian, this is how my wife responds to 95% of our arguments at home: “I mean this in the most respectful way,” she said. “I don’t care what other people have to say.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/b...
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I like how everyone on the right and left is arguing about the suspects ideology and anyone who has or is close to someone with back issues saw the picture of the his back x-ray and was like yeah going crazy tracks
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 06/05/2023
I ate deep dish pizza and then ran five miles along the lake. Two of my favorite things to do in Chicago but uh maybe next time I’ll reverse the order.
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Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social · 30/04/2023
They put up the net before halftime because they’re worried about us throwing things and the beer snake is growing exponentially. Where my XFL skeets at?!?! #XFL #DCDEFENDERS #feedthesnake
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