Benjamin Wittes

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benjamin Wittes · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Wittes: Brookings study identified up to 6,000 victims in 80 sextortion cases
“So we actually did, I, about a year ago, published a study, a Brookings study, of ADs extortion cases, and they accounted for A minimum of 1300 victims, and I think more, probably more like 6000 victims.”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:27 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Wittes: Academic blogs fail because they lack journalistic editing sensibilities
“Part of the problem is that the blogs, generally speaking, that try to give voice to academics are generally not run by journalists, and so they don't have a journalistic sensibility in terms of what they're pushing people to do.”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:15 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
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Wittes: US confrontation with Russia will dominate foreign policy for years
“Adversary foreign power. Don't confuse it with anything else. It is led by a person who does not have the United States' best interests at heart, and who wants to reestablish hegemony over a region that involves a lot of countries that don't want to be subject…”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:36 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Wittes: Digital technology makes sexual violence scalable for the first time
“And so this is in a Silicon Valley sense, the first time sexual violence has ever been scalable. We have perps that are doing You know, thousands of victims all over the world.”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:01 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Wittes: Tech platforms replaced governments as primary defenders against digital threats
“You don't look to the government, you look to the provider of your spam filter. You're vulnerable to individuals that you never imagined yourself to be vulnerable to, and you look to A very different model of defense than you, than we all grow up in sort of ci…”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:17 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Wittes: Elite versus mass movement axis explains politics better than left-right
“It's the spectrum I think about. It's an imperfect Understanding of it, to be sure, but I think it works much better than a left-right axis.”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:43 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
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