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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For 25 years, Public Knowledge has fought tirelessly for your rights in the digital era. If you care about defending free expression, securing your privacy, or promoting competition in online markets, we hope you’ll donate to our efforts this #GivingTuesday. Give today: publicknowledge.org/Giving
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A fantastic display of speaking truth to power by @publicknowledge.bsky.social Senior VP, Harold Feld @haroldfeld.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=bshN...
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Part II of Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans
YouTube video by CommerceRepublicans
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Correct Judge Mehta didn't order Google breakup last week but late Friday night we saw DOJ is full speed ahead in its other remedies trial in 16 days and posted its PFJ (Proposed Final Remedies) now 60+ pages of brilliant detail. Let me walk you through key terms. /1
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today, @publicknowledge.bsky.social filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Cox v. Sony, arguing that broadband providers should not be liable for continuing to provide service to users, & should not be forced to disconnect their customers based on sole accusations of copyright infringement.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Annnnd we knew it was coming but it still frustrates: the FTC is dropping its appeal in the non compete rule litigation. Cmmr Slaughter’s statement: www.ftc.gov/system/files...
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Agreed. “Unreasonable” is framing that should cause some concern. It cuts against the underlying principle behind the ban.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Google search remedies decision is a stunning failure to hold Big Tech accountable. Read more on why, and what might come next here:
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.techpolicy.press/the-limits-o... "In the end, the civil society advocacy group Public Knowledge came closest to the real message of the judge’s decision in the search case, saying that “the courts cannot be the end-all, be-all of antitrust." Why thank you very much!
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The Limits of Antitrust Remedies in the Google Search Case | TechPolicy.Press
The decision revealed the fundamental limitation of antitrust as a way to structure markets in the public interest, writes Mark MacCarthy.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Watching this hearing, "Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation" in House Judiciary. Rep Fitzgerald claiming that the EU's DMA will cost Americans $1 billion dollars every year and states "it's not just a number on a page." But WHERE is that number coming from??
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Frankly I'm disappointed that two years of my life led to this outcome, but I'm also perplexed. I'll dive deeper into the decision in a blog later this week. publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Denounces U.S. v. Google Search Remedies Decision Avoiding Breakup
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Is it illegal to not buy ads on X? @publicknowledge.bsky.social Policy Director @lisahmacpherson.bsky.social and Policy Counsel @elisephillips.bsky.social weigh in with @arstechnica.com: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Is it illegal to not buy ads on X? Experts explain the FTC’s bizarre ad fight.
Here’s the “least silly way” to wrap your head around the FTC’s war over X ads.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The kids aren't alright and it's time we do something about it. Read our latest White Paper as we dive into the heated debate on child safety online, and offer several recommendations to protect child users while preserving their rights to learn, explore, and connect. publicknowledge.org/childsafety
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The Kids Aren't Alright Online: How To Build a Safer, Better Internet for Everyone
This paper discusses the need for policymaking that prioritizes making the internet safer and privacy-protective for everyone and outlines how to get there.
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Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
While we wait on several antitrust cases against Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple to survive this administration, here's a story I wasn't expecting to see, by @capitolforum.bsky.social: Dozens of Federal Judges Attended Antitrust Seminars Hosted by Big Tech-Funded Group (with Joshua Wright involved).
The headline and top two grafs of a story by Capitol Forum reporting that dozens of federal judges attended seminars in idyllic locales like Hawaii and Portugal held by a George Mason University law school organization funded by Big Tech.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Well, yes. Here's a fair, well researched article I wanted to share: www.promarket.org/2025/08/13/d...
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Do Firms Use Connections to the President To Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny? - ProMarket
In new research, Claire Liu and Jared Stanfield examine how relationships between corporate leaders and the United States president enable firms to capture regulation and avoid antitrust scrutiny.
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The upcoming decision in the FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Meta over its acquisitions of WhatsApp & Instagram is poised to send shockwaves through the Big Tech industry, setting the tone for future litigation. But what exactly is all at stake, and what could come next?
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I am thrilled to see that competitive app markets are still a priority in Congress. Many thanks to Reps. Cammack and Trahan for leading the charge in the House on this with the App Store Freedom Act. You can read information on the bill, along with my quote here: trahan.house.gov/news/documen...
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Trahan Co-Leads New Bill to Open App Market, Protect Consumer Choice
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I can’t articulate how terrible this take is.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This Reddit AMA by former CFPB Chair Rohit Chopra is really really good: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
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From the IAmA community on Reddit: I ran the federal agency that was cracking down on junk fees – until I was fired. I’m Rohit Chopra, former head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. AMA.
Explore this post and more from the IAmA community
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨 The FTC is holding a workshop targeting transgender youth and their families on July 9. This Thursday, we’re answering with facts. Join us at 9 AM E.T. for a live-streamed panel with privacy experts, doctors, parents of transgender youth, & former FTC officials 👇 youtube.com/live/RqKbnnH...
Graphic with logos of Public Knowledge, LGBT Tech, and Fight for the Future. Title of event is "Culture War vs. Consumer Protection: How a Politicized FTC Fails Families, Patients, and Consumers." July 10, 2025, 9:00 AM EST.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 07/07/2025
Do you have opinions about tech policy and AI? Do you enjoy yelling at Congress? Want to get paid to combine those two things? Come work with us!
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Government Affairs Policy Counsel/Advocate - Public Knowledge - Career Page
Apply to Government Affairs Policy Counsel/Advocate at Public Knowledge in Washington, DC.
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Lisa Macpherson @lisahmacpherson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As predicted, the FTC issued a consent order requiring ad agencies not “boycott” online publishers. But it ignores far more likely impacts of the merger on competition. My @publicknowledge.bsky.social colleague @elisephillips.bsky.social and I break it down. publicknowledge.org/update-the-f...
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Update: The FTC’s Consent Order in the Omnicom Ad Agency Merger Misses the Point
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Thanks to @amyklobuchar.com, Marsha Blackburn, & @blumenthal.senate.gov for reintroducing the Open App Markets Act to reduce gatekeeper power and realize the promise of true competition in the app economy. 🎉 Great step toward market fairness! publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Applauds Bill To Open Up App Stores
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Late last week, news outlets reported that the FTC may hinge the approval of a merger between ad agencies Interpublic and Omnicom on forcing the new, merged company to not "boycott" online platforms — a requirement that is not only misleading, but unconstitutional as well.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Big Tech keeps getting bigger, and the time has come to think beyond antitrust. Public Knowledge's new paper delves into expert recommendations for creating a digital regulator – and a brighter digital future for all. Read here: publicknowledge.org/policy/build...
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Building the Digital Platform Commission: How To Design a Regulator To Rein in Big Tech
This paper discusses the need for a sector-specific digital regulator while also outlining how to design one to effectively rein in Big Tech.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We're hosting our third annual spring happy hour, The People's Party, next week! Please come! Information here: publicknowledge.org/the-peoples-...
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The People's Party | April 3
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
1/ Sitting in a House hearing about protecting kids online. Let me tell you how the FTC has worked to protect kids and teens online.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m here at the House Energy and Commerce hearing this morning where Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter is testifying. Right now I’m hearing strong words from Rep. Pallone condemning her and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya’s illegal firings.
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Maria Langholz @marialangholz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
On Tuesday, Trump & Musk tried to illegally fire FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter & @bedoyaftc.bsky.social In the past 48 hours, they’ve absolutely crushed interviews, showing exactly why this move is both illegal and dangerous. Here’s some of what they’ve said:
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨 Today, President Donald Trump claimed to have terminated Democratic Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and @bedoyaftc.bsky.social at the Federal Trade Commission. This act violates both the statute that created the FTC and clear Supreme Court precedent.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump has illegally fired the Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission. Read my statement from Public Knowledge here: publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Condemns Trump’s Lawless Attack on FTC Independence
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
reporters need to be way more prepared to push back on “the algorithms” nonsense — what algorithms? in what way are they equipped to make sense of huge caches of unique data? and what outputs are they producing that either Musk or Johnson is equipped to assess?
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Independent, bipartisan commissions are essential for regulatory agencies like the FTC to fully protect market competition and consumer interests — but recent moves by the Trump admin put these under threat. Read more in the latest article from @elisephillips.bsky.social:
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Competition and Consumer Protection Need Reinforcements: Why the FTC Should Remain Independent
The moves by the Trump administration to assume authority over executive branch officials and employees puts independent agencies at risk.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’m off today (I’m moving!) but I’m still tuning in to listen to the Senate Commerce Nomination hearing for FTC Nominee Mark Meador
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Seeing reports that the FCC plans to take a vague and ineffective step on Section 230 to try to control speech online. So, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on why this Administration's war against the First Amendment and Americans' free speech rights is going nowhere. 🧵 1/??
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Good morning! I am covering the Senate Judiciary Committee's Nomination hearing this morning for Trump nominee Gail Slater to the DOJ. 🧵
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Morgan Wilsmann @mwils.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just in time for the House hearing on the "censorship-industrial complex", my colleague @lisahmacpherson.bsky.social writes how the "censorship" call is coming from inside the house. Trump admin's systematic efforts to take down news/media he disfavors is censorship 101.
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“Censorship”: President Trump keeps using this word, but I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Sen. Markey at SOTN "People over platforms, communities over corporations, innovation over entrenchment, the internet was meant to be free and fair and open" !!!!!
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New bill purporting to protect kids by outright banning anyone under the age of 13 from social media does anything but. Learn how this bill risks the privacy, safety, and First Amendment rights of children from L'Allegro Smith, Government Affairs Policy Advocate: publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Rejects Banning Kids from Social Media
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Also hug a lawyer today. Lot of civil litigation attorneys are gonna be working hard for the next four years fighting all kinds of stupid bullshit.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:
ynicism is first of all a style of presenting oneself, and it takes pride more than anything in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both these things. That the attitude that prides itself on world-weary experience is often so naïve says much about the triumph of style over substance, attitude over analysis.

Maybe it also says something about the tendency to oversimplify. If simplification means reducing things to their essentials, oversimplification tosses aside the essential as well. It is a relentless pursuit of certainty and clarity in a world that generally offers neither, a desire to shove nuances and complexities into clear-cut binaries. Naïve cynicism concerns me because it flattens out the past and the future, and because it reduces the motivation to participate in public life, public discourse, and even intelligent conversation that distinguishes shades of gray, ambiguities and ambivalences, uncertainties, unknowns, and opportunities. Instead, we conduct our conversations like wars, and the heavy artillery of grim confidence is the weapon many reach for.
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Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My piece for @openmarkets.bsky.social on what to expect in antimonopoly came out 2 days before the inauguration. Although we got no major announcements on competition/antitrust yesterday, the overall EOs have put us closer to the second scenario: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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Antimonopoly Under Trump 2.0 – Rule of Law or Rule of Trump? — Open Markets Institute
Senior reporter Karina Montoya writes about the Biden-Harris administration’s transformative antimonopoly efforts, their enduring impact on U.S. competition policy, and the uncertain prospects for con...
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We at @publicknowledge.bsky.social are pleased to see @amyklobuchar.com reintroduce this bill! Thank you Senator for working to increase competition and empower consumers.
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Klobuchar Reintroduces Bill to Promote Competition and Improve Antitrust Enforcement
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chairwoman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, reintroduced legislation to reinvigorate America&rs...
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Morgan Wilsmann @mwils.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1/10 Meta announced it will drastically change some of its content moderation policies to “allow more speech.” Yet most of these changes may instead discourage free expression on Meta’s platforms. Here’s why:
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The impending decision in the Justice Dept's antitrust lawsuit against Google on monopolization in the adtech market could change the web as we know it—especially when combined with the earlier landmark decision in US v. Google on Google search. Read the breakdown from @elisephillips.bsky.social:
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The Google Ad Tech & Search Cases: How Combined Remedies Could Reshape Digital Markets
The DOJ's ad tech and search engine antitrust lawsuits against Google have the potential to completely reshape our experiences online.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Watching the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Hearing - looking forward to listening to a bipartisan path forward for anti-monopoly work in Congress next year.
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Elise Phillips @elisephillips.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
On this #GivingTuesday, we hope you can join us in celebrating by supporting us in our work towards a creative and connected future for everyone. No amount is too small, and all contributions are deeply appreciated—give today at the link below! 💝 publicknowledge.org/Giving
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End-of-Year Giving
We need your support to continue our work on promoting free expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works in the coming year. You can make your contrib...
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Morgan Wilsmann @mwils.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
@lisahmacpherson.bsky.social really brings home how Google's control over ad tech isn't good for anyone but Google - not the advertisers, not the publishers, not the consumers. And she should know - she was a marketing exec for years before getting into public interest tech policy!
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