Senior Policy Advisor DLA Piper | Transatlantic Consumer Protection Expert | Founder | Privacy OG | Former Commerce Department & FTC Senior Official |
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Dan Caprio retweeted
"Our 21st-century presidents fall into: They win elections because their opponents were unpopular, and then—imagining the public has endorsed their activists’ agenda—they use the power of their office to make themselves unpopular.
This election should teach both parties that lesson again, but it will still be hard to learn.
The Democrats will resist it because it’s hard to learn anything from your own election victories. It just feels too good to win. You would think it should be obvious that this was not a public endorsement of anything about the Democratic Party: The party remains exceedingly unpopular, and its politicians didn’t even run on anything in particular. Voters can’t stand the Democrats, but this election was not a referendum on the Democrats. It was a referendum on the Republicans, whom voters clearly also cannot stand." nationalreview.com/corner/an…
Dan Caprio retweeted
Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter who has spent decades as the Wall Street Journal’s keeper of the old Republican flame, has written the GOP’s obituary. Her verdict: Trump is the author of the ruin.
It wasn’t the war alone, she argues. It was the prices. The tariffs. Above all, the corruption, showy and shameless: crypto, pardons, federal contracts for his sons’ companies. Then came the decadence. Three days before the election, Trump threw a jungle-themed Halloween party with a caviar bar while Americans outside the gates added up their grocery receipts.
Ron DeSantis called Tuesday’s results “close to an extinction level event” for his party. Trump’s response: sign a ballroom beam, declare his office a national monument, and blame Fox’s polls.
Noonan has a line for that: “Please. It was you, Fredo.”
When a Reagan speechwriter is quoting The Godfather at you, the party is over.
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The economy and corruption lead the list of voter concerns.
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Dan Caprio retweeted
Trump ran on draining the swamp. Instead, a whole new group of swamp dwellers has brought a new level of corruption to Washington.
Republicans need an honest postmortem on the allegations of people monetizing access to the president.
Dan Caprio retweeted
Scoop from Leah Nylen and me (brief detour back to antitrust): WH to nominate Chris Mufarrige to be an FTC commissioner. Mufarrige currently heads up consumer protection enforcement for the agency
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Dan Caprio retweeted
Today, I outlined my vision for rolling out the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark @CTATech Innovation House.
This will give consumers a new tool to identify products that make cybersecurity a standard feature of a connected home.
Op-Ed in Fox News Opinion: foxnews.com/opinion/fcc-cybe…
Remarks from today’s kick off with the Consumer Technology Association: fcc.gov/document/keynote-com…
Press Release: fcc.gov/document/carr-announ…
Dan Caprio retweeted
It was already one of the most memorable weeks of Pat Murphy's life. And then ...
Bruce Springsteen called.
I talked to the Brewers manager about his conversation Wednesday with the Boss
Unlocked and free to read
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Dan Caprio retweeted
Scoop: The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI.
-Each CID is more than 50 pages long.
-The FTC is seeking documents related to security incidents and safeguarding practices.
-The agency also requests marketing materials and documents detailing company privacy policies.
-Investigative demands to third-party AI organizations will be issued at a later date.
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Dan Caprio retweeted
That was one of the most humiliating, embarrassing, unacceptable finishes in franchise history. I cannot believe it just happened.
Nobody is getting fired. I would even say nobody should get fired. But that was a fireable sequence. That cannot happen at this level. It is just a completely disastrous and unacceptable outcome.
There is no explaining it. That is as embarrassing as the swinging gate. That was so bad. No hyperbole, that was just amateur hour.
Dan Caprio retweeted
Shocking images of the Tiananmen massacre. China might have gone the way of other Communist dictatorships in 1989, but for this readiness to gun down unarmed civilians.
Today, the ’89 Democracy Movement has been so effectively memory-holed that Chinese students, shown the famous image of the man standing in front of the tanks with his shopping bags, do not recognise it as being in China.
WATCH: Britain’s ITN has released ~4 hours of previously sealed 1989 Tiananmen footage — filmed by the team that smuggled the tapes out of China.
The material, archived for ~35 years, includes a 2-hour crackdown compilation and 90 minutes of secretly filmed raw rushes from the days after, showing military trucks on Beijing streets, crowds, and the aftermath.
Dan Caprio retweeted
This is the kind of pledge that the @FTC could potentially tally enforce, if a company materially failed to follow through on any of these promises.
Only President Trump could convene all the leaders of the top companies developing chips, data centers and frontier models for Super Intelligence. This new Industrial Revolution has already created a million new jobs and is spurring a bigger infrastructure build-out than the railroads, canals and grid combined. I was honored to witness history as the leaders of the frontier lab companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, accepting responsibility for the safe development of their products and imposing new internal controls and external audits. This is far better than waiting years for some international agreement that would probably never happen. President Trump continues to ensure that U.S. remains the technology leader while putting Americans first.
Dan Caprio retweeted
It’s important that we honor and promote films that challenge and refute the many Hollywood products that whitewashed communism. | @johnfund
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