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"We have to be very intentional as policymakers about whether these technologies serve to deepen or bridge those inequalities and biases."
"We're introducing new Store commerce models and policies and creating new opportunities for local publishers and supporting even more apps with Android apps on Windows."
"Google is asking that the US government step in and assist in funding the open source projects that have become critical to so many companies."
"Everybody likes net neutrality. I don't think there are many people who don't."
"The question that's actually being answered with this vote is how do we want net neutrality to be enforced."
"Net neutrality is the idea that your pipe to the internet...is not allowed to arbitrarily pick favorites in terms of the content that you consume."
"This is what happens when you have a bunch of old people sitting around not sure how to log into their Yahoo, making laws about the Internet."
"This is a regime that is meant to support responsible innovation."
"If the United States gets serious about restricting technology acquisition and technology theft by the Chinese communists, then there could indeed emerge some serious strains within China."
"So in August he signed the chips act allocating more than 52 billion dollars in federal aid for Semiconductor research and Manufacturing."
"Rules governing the app store review process are arbitrarily interpreted and enforced and are subject to change whenever Apple sees fit."
"The West's clampdown on technology exports marks a shift towards a more independent global economy."
"Net neutrality was a lot of fuss for nothing."
"Vladimir Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones and computers."
"We need a hard reform on Section 230... big Tech should not be free to editorialize and be immune at the same time."
"Google mandates two years of security updates for popular phones."
"The question of open platforms and store economics will be foremost in apple executive Minds this week I believe the best outcome can be achieved if Apple speedily concludes that the combination of an app store Monopoly and 30% fees is untenable."
"The big thing that we have to avoid in our country... is there's a just an attempt to dampen AI and its utilization by people who don't have a product."
"This is net neutrality on steroids, it's genuinely horrifying."
"India has banned nearly 50 more Chinese-made smartphone apps."
"Should Google be required to provide security updates for their Android operating system for far longer than they do now?"
"The more autonomy comes in, the more explicit the choice becomes between efficiency and sustainability."
"We need to have a global framework to regulate this, it doesn't make sense to just have national approaches."
"No more Facebook account requirement for Quest 2."
"You need to ban Huawei and support American companies."
"I hope we write the proper policies before we start going too crazy with the technology."
"YouTube has never actually hidden or paywalled the highest quality experience, no matter what it is."
"Epic seeks to end Apple's dominance over key technology markets, open up the space for progress and ingenuity, and ensure that Apple mobile devices are open to the same competition as Apple's personal computers."
"Yeah, let's talk about some of the good things like Congress pass the chip sack and then Biden also did made his executive order that's very limited."
"Oculus is going to require you to sign into a Facebook account to use the VR, you guys know that?"
"Musk suggested a bold idea making all social media companies share the secrets behind their algorithms."
"If it is true that we are going to need to be spending more time in our homes and if it is true that access to technology is a lifeline then should we be treating the internet as a commons as a public utility that we govern?" - Naomi Klein
"Most crypto policy issues are complicated by how fast the tech is growing and changing. It's hard to craft specific solutions with any confidence they'll make sense in a few years." - Jake Cervinski
"Right to repair is sort of on the like come up all the time."
"Apple requires users to opt in to tracking whereas before it was opt out."
"I think we should have an AI regulatory agency for the public good."
"There is a bipartisan recognition that blockchain and crypto technologies represent the US's competitive advantage."
"Transparency and control, we say privacy is not an end, it's a journey."
"Banning new business models or technologies undermines American values and drives innovation and jobs elsewhere."
"Should the government step up and start regulating... I think yes."
"I see no reason why there shouldn't be paper backups for any electronic system."
"At the end of the day, what I advocate for are policies that would benefit anybody that uses an Apple product."
"Leaked documents suggest Apple could be forced to build iPhones with user removable batteries in Europe."
"This administration will be the last that does not have a cabinet-level technology-focused position."
"We have to have some contract with the AIs, some constitution for the AIs."
"Schools that ban phones dramatically improve kids' well-being and test scores."
"I absolutely reject the idea of banning Tik Tok, and the only thing I can say is it's better parenting."
"Ensuring that there's a track for Global cooperation on AI is critical."
"Apple's App Store policies might hinder the growth of the cryptocurrency sector."
"I want people in technology, innovators, engineers, and scientists like yourselves, helping us make policy based on facts, based on reason."