Big week in tech policy and copyright. The latest Re:Create Recap newsletter delivers the TLDR: 🟠 The CREATOR Act: @bc_butler warns that trying to copyright an artistic "style" will be a disaster for creators, giving corporations the power to block new work through endless lawsuits. 🟠 Unbalanced Legislation: CA AB 412 and H.R. 6028 push an impossible approach to copyright policy that would have major impacts on the creative industry. 🟠 AI Fair Use Hypocrisy: Media giants are weaponizing copyright against AI training, despite relying on fair use daily. Read the full newsletter: mailchi.mp/recreatecoalition…

Extremists don't build their own internet infrastructure — they use industry-leading providers. A recent @ADL report finds that @Cloudflare is keeping the lights on for violent extremism, graphic violence and terrorism online — failing to prevent its services from platforming these dangerous websites. Tech companies can no longer claim ignorance. Read the full findings: adl.org/resources/report/kee…

Look out: The FCC wants to force phone companies to collect and store your personal information when you buy a phone. Bad idea. Yet another threat to anonymous speech. And @JayCStanley is 100% right:

JAM-PACKED JUNE 📱School Screentime Review 🏗️Permitting Reform 🌊Trusted Sub-Sea Cables 🚨Increase 911 Reliability FCC.GOV/JUNE2026

I think it’s really under-appreciated that a core fact of American politics is Republicans have this extreme outlier view of health care that no other major political party in the world tries to uphold.

MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for the release of the Epstein files and not be conflicted in any way? PLATNER: Yes, of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults at an earlier part of my life. That seems like a fairly normal thing most people do. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing.

Joint Statement by 22 countries on Iranian State Threat Activity in Europe, North America and Australia state.gov/releases/office-of…

A (relatively) quick note to respond to the (much appreciated) scores of (very nice) notes online regarding today's news about Doctor Who. My interest and record is well-established; the only real question I think the BBC would (very fairly) ask is: would British fans be open --

Comedy of AI errors: Lawyers on both sides of a case misuse AI, cite fake hallucinated cases. At the show-cause hearing, "each of the attorneys expressed embarrassment and apologized to the Court." "Neither of them verified the legal authority output by AI before filing their briefs." In other words, there were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT (or whatever LLM) to argue against itself. Neither of them realized this until the court issued the OSC! Fines all around (between $1,000 and $3,500), other sanctions include pro hac status revoked, disqualified from practicing in the district for 2 years, among other things:

OPINION: To help address rising costs, California should update its 119-year-old antitrust law and curb monopoly abuse by dominant firms, including Big Tech. sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…

.@Google search not a common carrier, Ohio appellate court confirms. prior: mediapost.com/publications/a…

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