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Starting in 30 minutes: a Senate hearing titled "Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed for Digital Assets".

Livestream at banking.senate.gov/hearings/crypt…

#SenateHearing

Witnesses will be:
• @leereiners (policy director at the Duke Financial Economics Center, crypto skeptic)
• @LindaJeng1 (crypto lobbyist)
• Yesha Yadav (law prof at Vanderbilt, pro-crypto, big on crypto self-regulation)

Written testimonies linked here: banking.senate.gov/hearings/crypt…

Sen. Brown (D-OH) apologizes for delay, says they were held up at a briefing about spy balloons. 🎈 Starts out with a fairly scathing remarks, as to be expected from historically skeptical Sen. Brown.

#SenateHearing

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

@doctorow

The online debate over #FreeSpeech *suuuuucks*, and, amazingly, it's *getting worse*. This week, it's the false dichotomy of #FreedomOfSpeech v #FreedomOfReach - whether a platform should override your explicit choices about what you want to see:

seekingalpha.com/news/3849331-m… 1/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e… 2/

It's wild that we're still having this fight. It is literally the first internet fight! The modern internet was born out of an epic struggled between #Bellheads and #Netheads. 3/

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SolidusMax

@SolidusMax