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Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · Aug 6

Who wouldn’t want to listen to me and @achapell.bsky.social spar about privacy on @monopolyreport.bsky.social?
www.monopolyreportpod.com/episode-41-d...

Episode 41: DuckDuckGo on balancing privacy and competition in the ads space

Kamyl Bazbaz and Joseph Jerome from DuckDuckGo join Alan to discuss the role of the browser, the intersection between privacy and competition and how DuckDuckGo dif…

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 1d

“The law turns privacy rights in California from theoretical to tangible. It could be a model for the country.”

@shiraovide.bsky.social on #GPC: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/

The Tech Friend: The big reason to think twice before buying a smart ring? Their batteries.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 3d

Jon Sallet from the Colorado AG discussing Google’s search dominance flywheel at an excellent lunch put on by @knightgtown.bsky.social

Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 4d

“[Artificial intelligence] was promised as a magical solution to all sorts of things. In practice, it’s not ready for that,” said Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Analysis | Americans have become more pessimistic about AI. Why?

Four theories to explain the surveys that keep showing sour public opinion about AI.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 7d

Overheard in a TSA line:

Agent to kid: How old are you? Are you twelve?

Kid to agent, merrily: No, I’m thirteen!

Agent to kid: Got clothes on under that hoody?

Kid to agent, confused: Yes?

Agent to kid: Take it off! Welcome to adulthood.

Everyone laughs. I cry.

a man in a knight 's helmet says take it off or i will

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 8d

It’s become a personal peeve of mine that we still call any of these content farms “social.”

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 9d

That bunt by the @redsox.com was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 11d

As U.S. policymakers continue to discuss AI regulation, DuckDuckGo’s CEO proposes a federal baseline that:

(1) Brings out the ban hammer for harmful practices.
(2) Imposes safeguards for risky practices with an opt-in consent for consumer AI.
(3) Transparency and optionality for everything else.

What banning AI surveillance should look like, at a minimum

Prohibited practices, others that face higher scrutiny, and the rest at least transparent and optional

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 11d

This year's lineup of amazing orgs supported by DuckDuckGo has just been announced!

From courtroom advocates to encryption specialists and digital markets experts, all contribute to raising the standard of trust online. Discover their work⬇️

spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduc...

2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations

DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2025 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 11d

This seems correct on so many levels. I think it would apply to our tech overlords, as well. Zuckerberg is a great example: started “social media” as a college student and now thinks we need AI friends as he crosses 40, with a promise of another half-century as absolute monarch of Meta.

Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 12d

... increasingly American op-ed writers appear--as they stay in these positions as sinecures for longer and longer--to essentially be constructing parallel realities in their head and then self-selecting lives to live as close to them as they can so they never have to confront that they can be wrong

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 13d

This is generic advice, but I think providing more context into a query helps. Additionally, I’ve become a big user of bangs! But it’s a good idea for us to have some more tips beyond our help pages.

Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 14d

Sure!

a man in an orange jacket is sitting on a couch and says hit me

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 14d

If “caution” means allowing a defendant’s illegal behavior to persist, it defeats the purpose of finding liability in the first place and undermines the law enforcement function of antitrust law.

www.promarket.org/2025/09/23/a...

Appraising the Google Search Antitrust Remedies - ProMarket

Erik Hovenkamp and A. Douglas Melamed discuss what Judge Amit Mehta got right and wrong in his remedy decision in the Google Search antitrust case.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14d

Lot of annoyed Transparency/Security geeks today, NYT.

New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle showing “Glomar” is not a word

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 19d

Alas news isn’t free.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 22d

83% of US adults haven't paid for news in the last year.

About half (49%) say their main reason is they can find plenty of free news elsewhere.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Chart showing among the 83% of U.S. adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free. About half of those who don’t pay for news (49%) say this is the main reason.

Indeed, many news websites do not have paywalls. Others have recently loosened paywalls or removed them for certain content like public emergencies or public interest stories.

Another common reason people don’t pay for news is that they are not interested enough (32%). Smaller shares of Americans who don’t pay for news say the main reason is that it’s too expensive (10%) or that the news provided isn’t good enough to pay for (8%).

Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 20d

Brilliant flick!

a group of men are standing in a hallway and one of them is saying we are the united states government

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 21d

Looking forward to your oversight hearings one day!

Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 21d

Doing some cost-cutting. No reason.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 22d

It’s not accurate at all. Right up there with the gig economy “democratizing employment.” Companies seize on appealing metaphors to pursue strategies that are anathema to the initial concept.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 22d

Exactly. Town squares aren’t opened by billionaires.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22d

countries outside the US should start seeing social media companies like they see propagandistic state media.

the fact average people can post doesn’t negate how the platform owner shapes what information we see, the power that gives them, and how little regard they have for social consequences.

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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 23d

Google keeps chipping away at a nothingburger.

Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 23d

Stayed up late to learn that Google and the DOJ are still not in agreement on how to turn Judge Mehta’s remedies into a coherent order.

Antitrust Cases Bot @antitrust.bots.law · 23d

New filing: "U.S. v. Google LLC (Dep't of Justice Search Monopoly)"
Doc #1442: Memorandum

Download PDF | View Full Case

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