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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Newsy comments from Australian regulator Julie Inman Grant here on OpenAI's Sora potentially falling under scope of Australia's social media ban (tip @techmeme.com)

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Trump is bashing former DOJ official Lisa Monaco, who was instrumental in getting the TikTok law passed that will now see the app's control shift more toward Trump's allies The attack on Monaco, who is at Microsoft, follows Trump singling out LinkedIn co-founder & MSFT board member Reid Hoffman

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If you're trying to make sense of the FTC's settlement with Amazon, here's two data points: 1) Lina Khan, who chaired the agency when it brought the suit, is jeering the settlement 2) NetChoice, a trade group that counts Amazon as a member, is cheering the settlement

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The tech industry has come out strongly against AB1064, warning in ads splattered across the web that it would stifle innovation in schools and in health care, hurting students and kids. Several groups have instead embraced SB243, a measure to boost transparency around AI companions

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Hill Republicans tried to take up legislation targeting alleged bias in Google's email spam filter, but it went nowhere. The RNC filed an FEC complaint & a lawsuit over it, but both were dismissed Now Trump's FTC is warning tech giants it may take up the cause under federal law

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

News: Senate Parliamentarian OKs the revised reconciliation provision tying federal broadband subsidies (BEAD) to states not enforcing AI laws for 10 years, according to Dems on the Budget committee www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Elon Musk's X might not need to sue advertisers that boycott the site if the federal government (FTC) does it for them www.wsj.com/business/med... & www.axios.com/2025/06/16/x...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Senate Commerce's version of the budget bill out tonight requires states to not enforce their AI rules for 10 years under the moratorium to receive federal broadband subsidies under BEAD www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Trump is about to repeal Section 230 so hard

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Notably Trump is bashing Musk on his Truth Social account, and Musk is bashing Trump on his X Meanwhile, here's the last time Trump mentioned Elon on X. This was last weekend!!

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Democratic Sen. Warren today urged Treasury to investigate Musk's X for potentially violating sanctions by doing business with terrorist groups Almost exactly 5 years ago, GOP Sen. Cruz sent a similar letter asking Treasury to probe Jack Dorsey's Twitter over sanctions claims. Politics!

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as NYT loves reporting on the inner-workings of WaPo

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

WMAGA gonna be clutch when I'm bypassing the military parade traffic to get to Natty Landing

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

😎 Our website techpolicy.press has a spiffy new look! Check it out and let us know what you think. @techpolicypress.bsky.social @justinhendrix.bsky.social

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trump's 2026 budget "eliminates CISA’s disinformation offices and programs that functioned as a hub in the Censorship Industrial Complex" and takes aim at USAID funding of misinformation research whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As the FTC-Meta trial kicks off, tech trade group NetChoice is claiming the agency "approved" Facebook’s Instagram & WhatsApp deals in 2012 & 2014 This is false & misleading. The FTC declined to intervene, but that's not the same as approval See the FTC's letter to FB from '12:

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There you have it, 3 Republicans on FTC Notably a 50-46 vote, likely an indication of the widespread Democratic backlash over Trump's firing of the agency's 2 Democratic commissioners

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There it is: Trump again extends the TikTok ban deadline by 75 days with another executive order. And he again mentions the possibility of it factoring into his administration’s tariff talks with China

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Bedoya/Slaughter lawsuit against Trump twice tries to use the words of his FTC Chair, Ferguson, against him: 1) notes Ferguson answered a Humphrey's Executor Q by saying only SCOTUS can overturn its own precedent 2) cites Ferguson comments about "benefits" of dissenting views

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Inbox: Slaughter and Bedoya officially sue Trump admin. over their firings from the FTC in D.C. District Court Full complaint is here: protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In response to a few FTC follow-up questions, a White House spox just shared the text of Trump's dismissal letter to Slaughter (and Bedoya) I've seen references reported but to my knowledge the full thing is not yet in public domain, so here goes:

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Speaking of FTC website removals... the agency has removed Bedoya and Slaughter from its list of active commissioners and placed them on its formers list www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/co...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, who had already said he thinks POTUS has power to fire commissioners at his agency, issues statement saying he has "no doubts" about constitutionality of Trump's dismissal of Bedoya and Slaughter

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Nadler and Klobuchar, two top congressional Dems, out with statements bashing Trump's firing of the two Dem FTC commissioners as "outrageous" and unlawful

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

HUGE: Trump has fired both of the Democratic commissioners at the FTC, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. They both called their dismissals from the independent regulatory agency illegal in statements

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This upcoming (and long rumored) resignation by Starks, a Democrat, could give Republicans a majority at the FCC even before they get a 3rd commissioner confirmed, unlocking their agenda. It's currently 2-2 Rs & Ds

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The chair of the FTC, an independent regulatory agency, keeps referring to his own commission as the "Trump-Vance FTC." It's a notable turn of phrase given Trump's push to bring the agency under his control and to fire independent regulators/watchdogs

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Trump touched on deepfakes, chips and Elon Musk's DOGE during his joint address, but some of his tech remarks are already being thrown back at him to challenge his plans. My first piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/what-trump-s...

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

you can bet I'm still gonna be reading @willoremus.com and the Tech Brief!

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I pressed the White House & DOJ to say on record whether they will not enforce the TikTok ban & if violators won't be fined for the rest of Biden's term Here's the latest statement from Biden's press secretary, which calls TikTok's plea for more assurances "a stunt"

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

👀 Trump says he discussed TikTok with Xi Jinping. "It is my expectation that we will solve many problems together, and starting immediately," his post reads

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Dems are making a last-minute push to not have TikTok go dark on Biden's last day, only to be potentially 'saved' by Trump Reality is most Dems backed the TikTok law, as did most Republicans, Biden signed it, and Trump too once pushed for a ban. Most of DC had a part in this law

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

New: If you're hoping that President Biden will throw TikTok a last-minute lifeline by extending its deadline to divest by 90 days, don't hold your breath: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @washingtonpost.com

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Full Speaker Johnson statement on the updated KOSA:

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Me writing the intro to my newsletter yesterday evening: My Miami Heat just hours later:

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