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2⃣: Startups encounter significant compliance costs. It’s important to note that several of these costs came from duplicative compliance activities (the report breaks down all these costs startups encounter in greater detail).

This is a really good little browser game that shows you the impossible task of being a content moderator on the internet, and how it's never as clear-cut as it seems. (And note that the people doing this actual job frequently make minimum wage.) moderatormayhem.engine.is

The current #dataprivacy landscape doesn't work for startups (or anyone else). As Camila Lopez 👩‍⚖️ points out: "To solve this problem, Congress needs to pass one uniform federal privacy framework that works for startups."

Powerful analysis of KOSA's threats to LGBTQ+ kids in Teen Vogue. Of course. teenvogue.com/story/kids-onl…

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

What a fascinating piece by ⁦McKay Coppins⁩’ book on ⁦Senator Mitt Romney⁩ So much in here. Including: “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

🍂Are you ready? We declare summer OVER in DC. That means we don't see much potential for sustained 90-degree weather. But we do see LOTS of nice days ahead.🍂 washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…

Adobe-Figma isn’t happening and we have final merger guidelines. I guess that means it’s time for a thread to unpack the coal 🌑 delivered to tech M&A this week.

This is funny, but it raises important points that merit exploration. Some thoughts on this: 1) Big rights holders are, indeed, suing AI cos. over stuff like this. They don't want to sue it out of existence, though. Their goal is to take a windfall profit by taxing these tools.

So many points worth emphasizing in this great thread (we all rely on fair use! ruinous damages in copyright law! richard the plumber from this old house!), but this is the big one.

Startups want to “chomp” away at creating novel products with AI, but navigating the maze of innovation increasingly involves dodging “ghosts” of poorly-conceived regulation, legal threats, and practical challenges. 🎃🧵

Can you guess the music icons (with "identifying characteristics") that inspired the ghosts in our animation on digital replica proposals?

Having trouble making any sense of this proposed rule. So IG would have to let me choose who I would want to moderate content for me, and that person could be a third-party moderator? How could you possibly implement this? Why would you want to?

Looking forward to reading an FTC docket full of people outing themselves for sharing offensive and crude memes, and the government redacting the memes "for PII" (in an RFI about "censorship"!)

outstanding new Engine piece by Nathan on "The pro-startup policy agenda to power AI innovation." Highlights the enormous potential costs of over-regulation on Little Tech community.