The Ledger, every show
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Rogers: Previous administration pressured Twitter and Meta to censor posts
“Under the prior administration included things like global engagement center censorship efforts that were the subject of the Murphy Supreme Court litigation, where the State Department Along with other organs of the executive branch would contact Twitter or Me…”
Rogers: State Department shifts digital freedom policy toward VPNs and Community Notes
“Like, that was the kind of thing that was countenanced before that's not countenanced now, and we're much friendlier to initiatives like censorship circumvention VPNs and to initiatives like X's Community Notes that put that power in the hands of the users or …”
Rogers: EU official Thierry Breton threatened Elon Musk over Trump interview
“I think, you know, one key moment in August, 20, 24 was when a now former EC European Commission official, Terry Breton, Sent a letter to Elon Musk threatening him with regulatory penalties if he aired an upcoming interview on X with then presidential candidat…”
Rogers: AI military policy must be set by courts, not tech executives
“I think what is essential from a national security, national defense perspective Is that AI keeps its Western soul and that these really important debates about what you know, what kill shot the autonomous weapon should take or what the scope of data synthesis…”
Rogers: AI with a Western soul is America's greatest soft power tool
“The economist Tyler Cowen talks about AI with a Western soul. And I completely agree with him that that is the greatest soft power tool we can possess.”
Rogers: EU investigation into X culminated in 120 million euro fine
“Then, in the same letter, Breton makes reference to another ongoing investigation against X that ostensibly they say had nothing to do with speech. This is the investigation that recently culminated in a hundred and twenty million euro fine.”
Rogers: Disclosing AI model weights compromises Western competitive edge
“If you force companies to disclose aspects of the AI that let foreign adversaries, for example, reverse engineer the model weights, you're really compromising the American and the Western competitive edge.”
Rogers: Draft foreign legislation imposes strict criminal liability on LLM output
“And I've seen draft legislation that imposes like strict criminal liability if the LLM Is even capable of generating certain kinds of content.”
Rogers: Twitter moderation once banned calling a male sex offender male
“Like, we have seen tech workers make decisions, for example, that you should, it should not be permissible on Twitter to call a convicted sex offender, a male, which he is.”
Rogers: Represented NRA in prominent financial debanking and selective enforcement case
“I represented the NRA in a prominent case where, The regulations being enforced were ostensibly viewpoint neutral ones, but there was strong evidence that they were being enforced disproportionately against banks that allowed pro-gun groups to contract for fin…”
Rogers: Elon Musk buying X catalyzed tech industry free speech shift
“We've really seen the tech industry kind of come to the side of free speech in ways that it hadn't before, Catalyzed significantly by Elon's purchase of X”
Rogers: Proliferating a Western AI stack is a top US administration priority
“The proliferation of a Western AI stack is, is really, it's a top priority for our entire administration.”
Rogers: Digital Freedom Office will prioritize transparency and free expression
“In the State Department's reorganization, I acquired the Digital Freedom Office, which is basically, under my tenure, the opposite of that, so I'm pursuing transparency, truth, and reconciliation on prior censorship, and I am making freedom of expression, ah, …”