Chris Lewis
@chrisjlewis.bsky.social
Tech policy advocate, President/CEO at @publicknowledge.bsky.social, Fmr Alexandria City School Board member, DC sports fanatic, & donut connoisseur.
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Chris Lewis
@chrisjlewis.bsky.social
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Freedom Fortnight: The Opportunity the Juneteenth Federal Holiday Presents
Galatians 6:9 (KJV) — “And let us not be wearing in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
clewis.medium.com
My #juneteenth post from 2021, detailing an idea I posted in June 2020 to build a path towards racial healing clewis.medium.com/freedom-fort...
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For all you folks wondering about the FCC's latest effort to get rid of Trump-disapproved programming, this detailed explainer on the equal opportunity (aka the equal time) rule means and why even Commissioner Anna Gomez is underestimating its awefulness.
As the 2026 election season approaches, FCC Chair Brendan Carr seems to be looking for new ways to silence Trump's critics. Enter the "equal time" rule — read the latest from @haroldfeld.bsky.social:
Equal Time, Unequal Enforcement: The Latest Move to Weaponize the FCC Against Trump Critics
As the 2026 election season approaches, FCC Chair Brendan Carr seems to be seeking new ways to weaponize the law on Trump's behalf.
publicknowledge.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:05 PM
For all you folks wondering about the FCC's latest effort to get rid of Trump-disapproved programming, this detailed explainer on the equal opportunity (aka the equal time) rule means and why even Commissioner Anna Gomez is underestimating its awefulness.
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As the 2026 election season approaches, FCC Chair Brendan Carr seems to be looking for new ways to silence Trump's critics. Enter the "equal time" rule — read the latest from @haroldfeld.bsky.social:
Equal Time, Unequal Enforcement: The Latest Move to Weaponize the FCC Against Trump Critics
As the 2026 election season approaches, FCC Chair Brendan Carr seems to be seeking new ways to weaponize the law on Trump's behalf.
publicknowledge.org
January 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM
As the 2026 election season approaches, FCC Chair Brendan Carr seems to be looking for new ways to silence Trump's critics. Enter the "equal time" rule — read the latest from @haroldfeld.bsky.social:
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During questioning, FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked whether the FCC is an independent agency. Sen. Luján specifically cited the FCC website calling it “independent.”
I took a screenshot of the site at 11:54 am
I took another at 12:22 pm and the word “independent” was gone.
#FCCOversight
I took a screenshot of the site at 11:54 am
I took another at 12:22 pm and the word “independent” was gone.
#FCCOversight
December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
During questioning, FCC Chair Brendan Carr was asked whether the FCC is an independent agency. Sen. Luján specifically cited the FCC website calling it “independent.”
I took a screenshot of the site at 11:54 am
I took another at 12:22 pm and the word “independent” was gone.
#FCCOversight
I took a screenshot of the site at 11:54 am
I took another at 12:22 pm and the word “independent” was gone.
#FCCOversight
THREAD: Politico reporting on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr & the traditional, comedic speech he gave at the Federal Comms Bar Association Annual Dinner in DC noted the protest of left & right leaning orgs against the Chairman's threats to free speech & a free press (1/3)
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
THREAD: Politico reporting on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr & the traditional, comedic speech he gave at the Federal Comms Bar Association Annual Dinner in DC noted the protest of left & right leaning orgs against the Chairman's threats to free speech & a free press (1/3)
When will Europe learn how harmful website blocking as a part of copyright enforcement can be? Will the US continue to stay away from this gateway to censorship? See this story on Cloudflare reporting on websites being wrongfully taken down torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-t...
Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers * TorrentFreak
Cloudflare is warning the U.S. government that foreign anti-piracy blockades are becoming a significant trade barrier for American companies.
torrentfreak.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
When will Europe learn how harmful website blocking as a part of copyright enforcement can be? Will the US continue to stay away from this gateway to censorship? See this story on Cloudflare reporting on websites being wrongfully taken down torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-t...
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“This is a level of censorship we haven’t seen in my lifetime.” @publicknowledge.bsky.social President and CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social weighs in with @nytimes.com on FCC Chair Carr's campaign against so-called "liberal bias" in media:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/t...
Brendan Carr Plans to Keep Going After the Media
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“This is a level of censorship we haven’t seen in my lifetime.” @publicknowledge.bsky.social President and CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social weighs in with @nytimes.com on FCC Chair Carr's campaign against so-called "liberal bias" in media:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/t...
Real story: President Trump posted online that the Digital Equity Act is "racist" & he would simply ignore the law. Now, millions of dollars for broadband in rural communities have gone away because of it.
It's illegal & Congress is silent.
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It's illegal & Congress is silent.
kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...
Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News
President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Real story: President Trump posted online that the Digital Equity Act is "racist" & he would simply ignore the law. Now, millions of dollars for broadband in rural communities have gone away because of it.
It's illegal & Congress is silent.
kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...
It's illegal & Congress is silent.
kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...
President Trump prepares to create the power to tell you you have a job & are getting paid when you KNOW you are not.
NY Times: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
NY Times: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
President Trump prepares to create the power to tell you you have a job & are getting paid when you KNOW you are not.
NY Times: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
NY Times: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
Tech policy & #AI followers are anticipating new executive orders on AI from the President tomorrow. Excellent post from PK's @nickgarcia.bsky.social on our hopes & fears for tomorrow's announcements publicknowledge.org/hopes-and-fe...
July 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tech policy & #AI followers are anticipating new executive orders on AI from the President tomorrow. Excellent post from PK's @nickgarcia.bsky.social on our hopes & fears for tomorrow's announcements publicknowledge.org/hopes-and-fe...
#FairUse of a copyrighted work! great example Congressman @hankjohnson.house.gov
July 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#FairUse of a copyrighted work! great example Congressman @hankjohnson.house.gov
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Gotta add this to the @recreatecoalition.bsky.social "Fair use on the hill" infographic! www.recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Gotta add this to the @recreatecoalition.bsky.social "Fair use on the hill" infographic! www.recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...
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Thanks to @markey.senate.gov, @cantwell.senate.gov, Marsha Blackburn, & Susan Collins for stripping the AI moratorium from Senate budget bill. This text would have hamstrung state efforts to protect consumers from things like deepfakes & robocalls for 5 years. This cut was the right thing to do.
July 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thanks to @markey.senate.gov, @cantwell.senate.gov, Marsha Blackburn, & Susan Collins for stripping the AI moratorium from Senate budget bill. This text would have hamstrung state efforts to protect consumers from things like deepfakes & robocalls for 5 years. This cut was the right thing to do.
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Early Tuesday morning, the United States Senate voted 99-1 to pass an amendment to the budget bill removing the proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state laws on artificial intelligence. www.techpolicy.press/us-senate-dr...
US Senate Drops Proposed Moratorium on State AI Laws in Budget Vote | TechPolicy.Press
The 99-1 vote followed the collapse of a compromise between Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
www.techpolicy.press
July 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Early Tuesday morning, the United States Senate voted 99-1 to pass an amendment to the budget bill removing the proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state laws on artificial intelligence. www.techpolicy.press/us-senate-dr...
THREAD: Congress wants to keep you to pay to know what local laws are. #DontPaywallTheLaw
Heads up that there's a renewed bipartisan effort to keep you from knowing what the law *is*
Reps. Darrell Issa, Deborah Ross just reintroduced the PRO Codes Act to paywall the law. As @mrose.ink explains, "At a time when Americans are fighting rapid erosion of their rights and liberties, this bill would deny them the right to even know what the law is." publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
June 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
THREAD: Congress wants to keep you to pay to know what local laws are. #DontPaywallTheLaw
My #juneteenth post from 2021, detailing an idea I posted in June 2020 to build a path towards racial healing clewis.medium.com/freedom-fort...
Freedom Fortnight: The Opportunity the Juneteenth Federal Holiday Presents
Galatians 6:9 (KJV) — “And let us not be wearing in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
clewis.medium.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
My #juneteenth post from 2021, detailing an idea I posted in June 2020 to build a path towards racial healing clewis.medium.com/freedom-fort...
This Memorial Day weekend we remember those who died for our freedoms, including the freedom of speech. This letter shows our country's free speech is at risk again, and it calls for all of us in the United States to sacrifice and stand up for our freedoms www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This Memorial Day weekend we remember those who died for our freedoms, including the freedom of speech. This letter shows our country's free speech is at risk again, and it calls for all of us in the United States to sacrifice and stand up for our freedoms www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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🔈 Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET, President & CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social will testify in the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing “Strengthening America’s Leadership in Wireless Technology.” His testimony will urge Congress to make FCC spectrum auction authority permanent.
Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis To Testify Before House Energy and Commerce on America’s Wireless Leadership
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
publicknowledge.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔈 Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET, President & CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social will testify in the House Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing “Strengthening America’s Leadership in Wireless Technology.” His testimony will urge Congress to make FCC spectrum auction authority permanent.
Summary of @jrosenworcel.bsky.social final speech as FCC Chair: We got stuff done that put consumers first. ...plus thanks all the wonderful people who made that happen.
Here here! Thank you Chairwoman!
Here here! Thank you Chairwoman!
January 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Summary of @jrosenworcel.bsky.social final speech as FCC Chair: We got stuff done that put consumers first. ...plus thanks all the wonderful people who made that happen.
Here here! Thank you Chairwoman!
Here here! Thank you Chairwoman!
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Now @jrosenworcel.bsky.social swan song. Starts with reminder that in 1st speech as (acting chair) focused on putting consumers, disabled and disenfranchised first. Based on today’s presentation, we did the work.
January 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Now @jrosenworcel.bsky.social swan song. Starts with reminder that in 1st speech as (acting chair) focused on putting consumers, disabled and disenfranchised first. Based on today’s presentation, we did the work.
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This is where prison phone stuff is covered. Serious work here thanks to Congress passing legislation in 2021. Also work on national suicide prevention hotline. Again, lots of technical stuff to help people connect and stay connected. Again, this is not stuff that just “happens” without #FCC regs
January 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is where prison phone stuff is covered. Serious work here thanks to Congress passing legislation in 2021. Also work on national suicide prevention hotline. Again, lots of technical stuff to help people connect and stay connected. Again, this is not stuff that just “happens” without #FCC regs
Great presentation at FCC Open meeting on the successful #ACP program. Congress should be embarrassed it didn't continue this important program to connect low income Americans.
$23 million a day out of the pockets of Americans, for the last 229 days & counting! publicknowledge.org/a-sustainabl...
$23 million a day out of the pockets of Americans, for the last 229 days & counting! publicknowledge.org/a-sustainabl...
A Sustainable Path Toward Digital Equity Must Prioritize Broadband Affordability Assistance
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
publicknowledge.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great presentation at FCC Open meeting on the successful #ACP program. Congress should be embarrassed it didn't continue this important program to connect low income Americans.
$23 million a day out of the pockets of Americans, for the last 229 days & counting! publicknowledge.org/a-sustainabl...
$23 million a day out of the pockets of Americans, for the last 229 days & counting! publicknowledge.org/a-sustainabl...
Congratulations to trailblazing Chair @jrosenworcel.bsky.social on her tenure! She's starting her last FCC meeting right now!
January 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Congratulations to trailblazing Chair @jrosenworcel.bsky.social on her tenure! She's starting her last FCC meeting right now!
This is what freedom of the press looks like www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
Commentary: FCC Commissioner Gets Hoodwinked About NewsGuard
Welcome to Reality Check, your inside look at how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it.
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:19 PM
This is what freedom of the press looks like www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/commentary...
Thanks for sharing.this thread @nickgarcia.bsky.social. and thanks to @evangreer.bsky.social for your courage and for speaking up to the powerful
Nancy Mace was invited to speak at Project Liberty's Summit on the Future of the Internet. Shortly after this, @evangreer.bsky.social was dragged out of the auditorium for standing up against Mace's inclusion. Here's why I got up and left too. 1/6
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Thanks for sharing.this thread @nickgarcia.bsky.social. and thanks to @evangreer.bsky.social for your courage and for speaking up to the powerful
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Finally a clear and smart take on the “podcast election” by @politico.com (which is not always smart, so this is welcome): www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What Democrats Don’t Understand About Joe Rogan
The future of American political engagement is barely political at all.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Finally a clear and smart take on the “podcast election” by @politico.com (which is not always smart, so this is welcome): www.politico.com/news/magazin...