Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Definitely understandable there’s some confusion with everything going on at LoC but USCP was pretty clear about this one 000
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Which part of this is confirmation? Seems like USCP denied that anything happened? 1110
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025You should take this down as it’s been firmly debunked and yet the rumor is spreading like wildfire 250
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Capitol Police have also confirmed there was no “standoff” 010
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This is fake news and has been confirmed by DOGE as such USCO is a subagency of the Library Congress and DOGE (as part of OMB) has no control. Even the President only has limited control over who runs USCO 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Getting this much positive engagement on a post using Portland as a case study for the Democratic Party, putting scare quotes around “crime,” and citing a Trump is Literally Hitler reading group is my “anecdata” that this place is still mostly an echo chamber 010
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 10/05/2025If you think the discourse on this platform is remotely representative of the broader public then you’re sorely mistaken 120
Reposted by Luke HoggInternet Education Foundation Projects @iefprojects.bsky.social · 30/04/2025🚨 THREAD: What does is mean to preserve online expression in the digital age? Here are 4 key takeaways from our Hill Briefing, “The Future of Online Expression In The Trump Era: Freedom vs Regulation” #OnlineSpeech Full video/audio here 👇 1/ www.netcaucus.org/event/online... 132
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Hopefully Congress will follow President Trump's lead and reorganize USAGM to cut the fat and better support the programs that work 000
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Whether it's breaking through the CCP's Great Firewall, letting Iranian dissidents communicate privately, or simply giving me the tools to make an embarrassing Google search without being tracked, OTF is one of our best investments 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Ronald Reagan once called America’s ability to communicate with the world “one of the most potent weapons in our arsenal. Today, that power lies in VPNs, encryption, and the open Internet! 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025🚨 90 percent of VOA and RFE/RL’s audiences access content via OTF-supported technologies 🚨 OTF-backed Psiphon VPN’s daily users to spike from 48,000 to 1.5 million in a matter of months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Some quick numbers: 🚨 Use of OTF tools quadrupled in the last 3 years from 9 million users to over 40 million today 🚨 Costing only 7¢ per user, OTF is the most cost effective USAGM program 🚨 OTF only receives 5% of USAGM's budget 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025While other projects like the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have seen declining viewership and effectiveness over the past two decades, OTF-funded tools have ballooned in usage 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Have you ever used @torproject.bsky.social? What about @signal.org? @wireguard.bsky.social? You can thank OTF 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025In an increasingly digital world, internet freedom has become an essential component of personal freedom and OTF's goal is to support projects that help people communicate and access the free and open web 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Quick 🧵 on why @opentechfund.bsky.social is awesome and why it's important that President Trump decided to save it at the last minute t.co/K0JK1GSk3z 120
Reposted by Luke HoggInternet Archive @archive.org · 16/04/2025Mark Graham (@mark.bsky.social), director of the #WaybackMachine, explains how the Wayback Machine archives over half a billion pages daily to ensure vital information remains accessible. Full video ➡️ youtu.be/ETpNMXeiR7c #InternetArchive #DigitalHistory #Preservation 245593
Reposted by Luke HoggJust Security @justsecurity.org · 11/04/2025Next in our Regulating Social Media symposium: @lehogg.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social analyze what it would take for #middleware to flourish: - align market incentives - address regulatory barriers & - encourage platform cooperation www.justsecurity.org/109974/enabl...justsecurity.orgEnabling a Thriving Middleware MarketFor middleware to flourish, policymakers must align market incentives, address regulatory barriers, and encourage platform cooperation. 061
Reposted by Luke HoggInternet Education Foundation Projects @iefprojects.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Join us: The Future of Online Expression In The Trump Era: Freedom vs Regulation" lunch with @ashkhen.bsky.social, Jenna Leventoff @aclu.org, Chris Marchese @netchoice.bsky.social, @lehogg.bsky.social @fai.bsky.social. 📅 Wed, April 23 ⏰ 12:00 PM 📍 Rayburn Building & Online ✉️ RSVP lu.ma/o51ptz6j 023
Reposted by Luke HoggFergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Francis Fukuyama's "middleware" concept offers an intriguing solution to the unchecked political influence of social media platforms. Great to see there's a new report out on it edited by @noupside.bsky.social & @lehogg.bsky.social substack.com/home/po... 141
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I still struggle to understand how a democratically elected government doing things “experts in democracy” don’t like is a threat to democracy 110
Reposted by Luke HoggJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 24/02/20252024 was the worst year for internet shutdowns, with governments imposing at least 296 outages in 54 countries. Ramsha Jahangir (@ramshajahangir.bsky.social) at Tech Policy Press on the key findings from Access Now's new report launched at #RightsCon:techpolicy.pressWhy 2024 Was The Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns | TechPolicy.PressAccording to a new report, 2024 was the worst year for internet shutdowns, with governments imposing at least 296 outages in 54 countries. 12719
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Blanket assertions that age verification introduces unique privacy and security risks are incorrect. The internet has changed dramatically since the early 2000s and the policy conversation around age verification should change accordingly 000
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Here's an example of how such a system could work in practice: 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, fully homeomorphic encryption techniques, trusted execution environments, and double blind architecture, we can establish a model for age verification that is both effective and secure 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The much better way to do age verification is to implement it at the level of the operating system and (on mobile) the app store 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Technically, it's duplicative and creates far too many points of failure to ever be effective Imagine how annoying it would be to have to re-verify your age once a month for every website you visit 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025One of the biggest problems with these laws (both constitutionally and technically) is that they want platforms to do the verifying Constitutionally, this is suspect as it may inhibit the free speech rights of adults to access legal content 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025While these laws are well intended, many of them are poorly drafted. At least 6 are subject to court challenges and the Supreme Court is currently deliberating on whether Texas' law will hold up 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025For more details on the state level laws, check out our appendix here: t.co/FNJV15G7iet.cohttps://cdn.sanity.io/files/d8lrla4f/staging/adfb700b0322c39aafb03af674ad7678733e0f84.pdf#page=26/ 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025As the challenges of parenting in the digital age are being magnified, policymakers are once again asking about age verification 19 states and multiple European countries have mandated stronger age verification online in the past few years, particularly around pornography 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Policymakers in the US chose to protect children from having their data scraped willy nilly by platforms but COPPA turned out to be toothless If you haven't violated COPPA (lied about your age online) then you haven't been online enough. Some platforms still think I'm 87 y/o! 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) took effect in 2000, age verification has been required by federal law to protect the privacy of children under 13, yet many still like to act as if age verification is a novel concept 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Tl;Dr - We now have the tech to do age verification in a way that protects the privacy and security of users and passes constitutional muster so long as we implement it at the operating system level t.co/5cvoBzUeDe 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Lots of people seem to think it's impossible to do age verification in a secure and privacy preserving way Those people are wrong That's why @fai.bsky.social teamed up to explain in detail for the first time exactly how we can do age verification right 🧵 1/x 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Pumped to join @noupside.bsky.social and @yoyoel.com in leading this workshop at @knightfoundation.org We may even have a special appearance by @jay.bsky.team! 010
Reposted by Luke HoggJoseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 19/02/2025Age verification has become a real policy flashpoint, but this paper from @fai.bsky.social's @lehogg.bsky.social and Evan Swarztrauber is a worthwhile nuanced read: www.thefai.org/posts/on-the...thefai.orgOn the Internet, No One Knows You're a Dog: Examining the Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Online | The Foundation for American InnovationThe Foundation for American Innovation. 183
Reposted by Luke HoggMolly White @molly.wiki · 05/01/2025i’m going to start sending out emails that start: “Hostile reminder:” 2956331
Reposted by Luke HoggRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/12/2024🧵New paper out on MIDDLEWARE‼️What is it? 3rd party tools that can interact with, in this case, social media platforms, on behalf of users. Maybe to curate your feed in a particular way. Maybe to moderate, labeling & hiding content or users that you don't want to see. www.thefai.org/posts/shapin...thefai.orgShaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware | The Foundation for American InnovationThis paper is co-published by the Foundation for American Innovation and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. 1522244
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Special thanks to @noupside.bsky.social, @rreisman.bsky.social, @daphnek.bsky.social, @aviv.me, @lukethorburn.com, @shubhim.bsky.social, and everyone else who helped us in this endeavor 120
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The best solution to platform power isn’t to give other centralized players more power, but to decentralize control over digital spaces and give power back to the users! 130
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024This paper is the result of those conversations and outlines how middleware can transform social media and what innovators and policymakers need to do to help us get there 100
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Building on the work of @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, @mmasnick.bsky.social, and many others, we joined with @stanfordcyber.bsky.social in April to host a symposium where we brought together academics, technologists, civil society, and others to discuss the promise of middleware 141
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Middleware offers a promising solution to counter the concentrated power of social media platforms www.thefai.org/posts/shapin...thefai.orgShaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware | The Foundation for American InnovationThis paper is co-published by the Foundation for American Innovation and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. 110
Luke Hogg @lehogg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024🧵 Our new paper @mccourtschool.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social just went live! 171
