David Sullivan

I'm not used to seeing my byline in a tabloid, but nonetheless glad to see the Boston Herald publish our op-ed on State's stupid and counterproductive visa policy for trust and safety workers. lnkd.in/g5_U7QvR

today is an especially good day to read this @mariafarrell.eurosky.social classic

Day 2 of TSRC with David Rand presenting on using AI to counteract conspiracy theories

I submit that walking past the McLaren dealership to get to Walgreens is peak Silicon Valley

Counterpart not being on the NYT list is a travesty

Eleven certified bodies now handle content moderation disputes under Article 21 of the DSA. None charges the nominal user fee the mechanism was designed around. New in @techpolicypress.bsky.social from DTSP's David Sullivan, Farzaneh Badiei and Jonny Shipp.

The EU DSA heard you liked box-checking exercises, so it put a box-checking exercise on your... well, you know. Out of court dispute processes for content moderation under Art 21 aren't censorship. But they're not looking like a great use of resources, either. www.techpolicy.press/the-overlook...

This anecdote--not the episode, which goes in a totally different direction--is hilarious& cute. But more importantly, it poignantly illustrates SO many things that I work on. 1) How endlessly creative kids will be in route around child restrictions, and how ineffective parental controls are. 1/

My latest (with @farzdusa.bsky.social and @jonnyshipp.bsky.social) on why we need to take a closer look at the Digital Services Act's out-of-court dispute settlement system.

I didn't know him nearly as well as others, but i am nonetheless deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Bertrand de La Chapelle. We're losing the early voices of internet governance, who understood the critical need for a free and open internet, when it is most at threat.

If you're reading the Meta settlement and wondering about the age assurance/verification contents, might I suggest you first read this new statement from the Internet Architecture Board: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statemen... HT @farzdusa.bsky.social @johnperrino.com

Just used the "seems like AI slop" button on LinkedIn for the first time, on a Scott Galloway post. Feels good.

Very pleased that @dtspartnership.bsky.social has republished the @feerst.bsky.social piece that Daphne referenced in her keynote and the below thread: Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet dtspartnership.org/media/your-s... No logins, no paywalls.

Yo @faineg.bsky.social are you on this? www.fcc.gov/document/fcc... HT @jmiers230.bsky.social

One of the great misconceptions of trust and safety is that it is primarily about removing and suppressing communication. Thankfully @daphnek.bsky.social is putting freedom of expression at the center of T&S.

@daphnek.bsky.social references this great piece from Alex Feerst where he collected anonymous quotes from trust and safety workers #TrustCon onezero.medium.com/your-speech-...

Masterful keynote. Anyone in T&S who couldn’t swing the budget or approval to make it to TrustCon should watch this on YouTube once it gets posted.

Oh snap, @daphnek.bsky.social is keynoting TrustCon!

Once again, @charlottewillner.bsky.social is giving a wonderful opening talk for #trustcon, kicking it off around the theme of "what did you want to be when you grew up?" and connecting to that to how much the entire trust & safety field has grown up and matured.

Gonna be talking age assurance with a bunch of smart folks from across the globe in just a few min, courtesy of @sflcin.bsky.social. Join us!

new report! with deep appreciation to everyone who joined us in Dublin for this event (which i was very sorry to have to miss).

Weiser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

this part is my favorite: "We did not find anything,” said one of the people. "It was not politically convenient that we could not find anything."

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Here's @techpolicypress.bsky.social with details on the forthcoming Presidential Decree on Brazil's new child protection law. Huge news that is mostly going unnoticed in US media. www.techpolicy.press/brazil-wants...

Power restored in South Boulder for all of... 5 minutes. sigh. #cowx

An important and welcome intervention against the Trump administration weaponizing immigration policy against technology research and trust and safety workers.

Follow closely this welcome and really important new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's policy punishing social media misinformation and hate researchers with immigration consequences.

Next up: Gary Shapiro, Billy Easley, Ashkhen Kazaryan, Ari Cohn, and David Inserra

Hello DC! Currently at @cato.org Listening to @ericgoldman.bsky.social on Section 230, noting how difficult it is to be anonymous online these days.

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT *REJECTS* PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS

Apparently Boulder's answer to how we can possibly host Sundance in less than a year is that we've got parking lots 🤨

Flurries on a red flag day… #cowx

@julietshen.bsky.social, check out this verb from claude code!

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