Twitter’s Head of Public Policy Explains the Company’s Advice to Regulators
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Nick Pickles, the director of global public policy strategy at Twitter. They discussed a new paper just released by Twitter, “Protecting the Open Internet: Regulatory Principles for Policy Makers”—which sketches out, in broad strokes, the company’s vision for what global technology policy should look like. The paper discusses a range of issues, from transparency to everyone’s favorite new topic, algorithms.
As a platform that’s often mentioned in the same breath as Google and Facebook, but is far smaller—with hundreds of millions of users rather than billions—Twitter stands at an interesting place in the social media landscape. How does Twitter define the “open internet,” exactly? How much guidance is the company actually giving to policymakers? And, what does the director of global public policy strategy do all day?
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.8 | When harm does occur, having a broad range of interventions, so it could be a warning label, |
| 0:39.4 | it could be a timeout, it could be removing access to a feature but still allowing |
| 0:44.0 | someone to have an account. |
| 0:45.7 | All those different interventions are interesting and useful ways to try and improve the overall |
| 0:51.6 | health of the platform and I think one of the important things we want to protect as |
| 0:56.3 | policymakers are drafting new rules is protecting that ability to come up with innovative and |
| 1:01.9 | different ways of trying to improve behavior rather than focusing on this if it's bad |
| 1:07.1 | you must remove it. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm Quentin Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, October 21, 2021. |
| 1:17.5 | Today we're bringing you another episode of Arbiter's of Truth, our series on the online |
| 1:21.9 | information ecosystem. |
| 1:24.2 | Evelyn Duac and I spoke with Nick Pickles, the director of Global Public Policy Strategy |
| 1:29.0 | at Twitter. |
| 1:30.6 | We asked him on to discuss a new paper just released by Twitter, protecting the open |
| 1:35.6 | internet, regulatory principles for policymakers, which sketches out and broad strokes, the company's |
| 1:42.9 | vision for what global technology policy should look like. |
| 1:46.8 | The paper discusses a range of issues, from transparency to everyone's favorite new topic, |
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