Colin Crowell 🔵🦉

This week marks three decades since #Section230 became law🏛️ 🎉🎂Here is my first-hand account of how it became law, which i wrote on the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 colincrowell.medium.com/reflections-... #TechPolicy #CDA230

Can the U.S. Congress do for AI policy🤖 what it did for the early Internet? Shared my reflections on the 30th anniversary of the law that built the Internet here👇 www.blueowlgrp.com/latest/the-l... #Section230 #ERATE #CDA230

New "Winging It" podcast: @nxthompson.bsky.social, CEO of @theatlantic.com, on how discovering his potential as a distance runner in his 40s changed how he thinks about limits — & how that discipline shapes his approach to leadership in the AI era🤖 🎙️Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3vlQ...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The new global disorder, emerging rivalries, & the values shaping the future — explored in our latest #WingingIt episode with Ambassador @mcfaulmike.bsky.social 🎧 Listen and join the conversation! open.spotify.com/episode/5OM0...

It was a delight to have you! Great insights! Let’s do it again sometime 🙏

The story of how I first joined Twitter (on Hillary Clinton’s advice) and why Russia once felt more open to tech & social media under Medvedev than it does under Putin. Clip from my appearance on the Winging It podcast with @colinc.bsky.social. Full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OM0...

🎙️New Winging It podcast episode from is out - here's our latest convo with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social - former U.S. Amb to Russia, Stanford professor, & author of the new book "Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder." 🎧 Link here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OM0...

🎧 New on Winging It: I talk with Prof Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social, author of the new book "The Age of Extraction" — how the Internet went from great promise to an extraction dynamic, what it means for #AI policy, & how to build a fairer digital economy.🤖 Link: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZL5...

What matters most as we create the next wave of AI? 🤔 Our Managing Director, @colinc.bsky.social, drops by with a #PerchTake fresh from San Francisco: Are we ready to build AI governance frameworks that serve public interest? The conversation is just getting started 👀👇

“To live entirely in the present, to be alive to the sounds and smells and people of each passing moment — this was the joy of the road.” - from “Between the Woods and the Water” by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Pre game #ACK @redsox.com Game 3

Crochet pitched a gem www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/s...

share of americans who think zelenskyy is serious about wanting a peace deal: 53% share who say the same thing about putin: 11% -yougov

Where does Europe stand in 2025? And what’s next? On Wednesday 10 September, President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu will reflect on the past year, current challenges for our Union, outline priorities and announce initiatives for the future. ℹ️ europa.eu/!YmtfQB #SOTEU

🚀🎙️ New Winging It Episode: AI & Bitcoin, Unplugged! We sat down with Core Scientific's Chief Development Officer. From rising to the top, through bankruptcy and rebirth, Core Scientific is now powering the future of AI and digital currency. Listen in 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2Ofw...

#ACK

Motherfucking wind farms…

Today’s Supreme Court opinion upholding my E-Rate program is a major victory for students and teachers across the country. Because every student, no matter their zip code, deserves access to the internet.

“The Giants also took on the remainder of Devers’s contract, approximately $237.7 million through 2033” 🧐 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/15/s...

I sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Brody Mullins for our latest episode of the "Winging It" podcast 🔵🦉🎙️ Brody is the co-author of "The Wolves of K Street" and offers an unvarnished look at the forces shaping US democracy. Please give it a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/69Wo...

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It was a delight to chat with @nytceciliakang.bsky.social on the latest episode of the @blueowlgroup.bsky.social “Winging It” podcast. Cecilia and I discussed her career journey as well as her insights on tech policy, AI, and journalism. Hope you give a listen 🙏 🔵🦉 open.spotify.com/episode/5g2s...

Looking at recent #elections in #Canada 🇨🇦 and #Australia 🇦🇺 -- it is difficult to think of other elections outside the U.S. that have been influenced so significantly by current political leadership in the U.S. 🇺🇸, and in ways unintended by that leadership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El novelista peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, de 89 años, ha fallecido este domingo en Lima. El premio Nobel de literatura pasará a la historia como un extraordinario narrador y un influyente intelectual elpais.com/cultura/2025-04...

In this edition of @blueowlgroup.bsky.socials "Winging It" podcast, Senior Advisors @chch.bsky.social Carlos Cortés and Andrea Barenque discuss the complex challenges of tech policymaking in Latin America. This "Charlas con Charli" version is w/Spanish subtitles. 🔵🦉🇨🇴🇲🇽🤖 youtu.be/51UOAVD3HTc?...

Rending of garments? “For Democrats, the result is a jolt of momentum. They have been engaged in a coast-to-coast rhetorical rending of garments since Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January…” 🗳️🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Wonderful list here in time for National Poetry Month theatln.tc/OgU7ySeF @theatlantic.com I can vouch for “Faithful and Virtuous Night” by Louise Glück, and “Nox” by Anne Carson. Look forward to diving into some of the others on this list 📚🙏

Wonderful list here in time for National Poetry Month theatln.tc/OgU7ySeF @theatlantic.com I can vouch for “Faithful and Virtuous Night” by Louise Glück, and “Nox” by Anne Carson. Look forward to diving into some of the others on this list 📚🙏

Great talking to my friend and former colleague @colinc.bsky.social about the early days of Internet policy and decades of trying to address and bridge the #digitaldivide.

Excited to share the latest episode of The Blue Owl Group's (@blueowlgroup.bsky.social) "Winging It" podcast 🔵🦉featuring longtime friend and colleague Larry Irving, tech policy OG, a 2019 Internet Hall of Fame inductee, & Chairman of the Board of the PBS. open.spotify.com/episode/6Vft...

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

I'm excited to share the latest episode of @blueowlgroup.bsky.social The Blue Owl Group's "Winging It" podcast featuring the remarkable Linda Griffin, Head of Global Public Policy at Mozilla. We discuss her career arc, #AI governance, and open source AI. 🔵🦉 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/68Vv...

McConnell: "Blame for this human catastrophe rests solely on Putin…If Russian forces laid down their arms, Europe would be at peace. If Ukrainian forces laid down theirs, Putin's aims would not stop…Mistaking this fact is as embarrassing as it is costly." 🇺🇦 www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index...

something I haven’t seen mentioned enough is that by replacing Joy Reid with a trio of Simone Sanders-Townsend, What Up Michael Steele and Senator’s-Daughter Alicia Menendez and Alex Wagner with Jen Psaki, msnbc is choosing to replace people who built careers in news with political operatives.

ICYMI and you're looking for a podcast this weekend, here's a recent episode we released with @ianbremmer.com Ian offers some great career insights as well as his views on the state of global AI governance. 🤖 We hope you give it a listen 🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/1UHV...

Our latest "Winging It" episode is out! This week our Senior Advisor Ian Plunkett chats with Bluesky Social's Head of Trust & Safety Aaron Rodericks about trust, tech, and building tomorrow's social web. Give it a listen! 🔵🦉🎙️ @plumps.bsky.social @aaron.bsky.team open.spotify.com/episode/0EtW...

During a fireside chat at the AI Forum on Children on the cusp of the #AIActionSummit in Paris 🇫🇷 w/ French Digital Affairs Amb @henriverdier.bsky.social, we discussed the chance to put in place AI guardrails and to harness AI's "better angels" for a hopeful future. 🤖🙏 @blueowlgroup.bsky.social 🔵🦉

A delight to chat on the @blueowlgroup.bsky.social's "Winging It" podcast with @ianbremmer.com, during which he shared his career journey and his perspectives on AI governance and geopolitics. Many thanks to Ian for joining🙏 Have a listen! 🔵🦉🎙️ On Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1UHV...

A delight to chat on the @blueowlgroup.bsky.social's "Winging It" podcast with @ianbremmer.com, during which he shared his career journey and his perspectives on AI governance and geopolitics. Many thanks to Ian for joining🙏 Have a listen! 🔵🦉🎙️ On Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1UHV...

“What are DeepSeek’s shortcomings? Like all other Chinese AI models, DeepSeek self-censors on topics deemed sensitive in China. It deflects queries about Tiananmen Square or geopolitically fraught questions like the possibility of China invading Taiwan” 🤖🇨🇳⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Twitter 1.0 never should have shut this down….new opportunity right now to capture this creative energy.

Unanimous decision ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01... #TikTok #SupremeCourt

We’re launching a podcast. Yes, the world needs another podcast like it needs a hole in the head. But hear us out — we're doing something different.

The incoming Trump Administration will have to decide whether to retain, rescind, or refine these new AI rules. 🤖⤵️ "The companies will have to agree to keep 75% of their total A.I. computing power within the United States or allied countries...." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...

“Some, including possibly Mr. Musk, will be so-called special government employees, a specific category of temporary workers who can only work for the government for 130 days….DOGE itself is now unlikely to incorporate as an organized outside entity or nonprofit.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...