Eric Festa

AI and crypto are rewriting how we build, think, and trust. I’m here for it.

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

🧵 After a long silence here, I’m back.

Something wild is happening in AI creation.
And I’ve joined the team behind it.

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[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

Fighting piracy is legitimate.
Replacing courts with kill switches is not.

Once courts are bypassed, everyone loses.
Including democracies.

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

Italy just fined Cloudflare $17M for refusing to comply with an extrajudicial censorship scheme.

This isn’t a technical dispute.
It’s about whether the rule of law still applies online. 🧵

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

Even at EU level, concerns have already been raised around transparency, overblocking, and due process safeguards.

This is what failure looks like at infrastructure scale.

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

This is not about piracy.

It’s about due process and whether Internet infrastructure can be turned into a censorship tool.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

@VittoStack AI

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

BlackRock’s message is simple:
Tokenization isn’t the future of crypto.
It’s the future of market infrastructure.

And just like the Internet in 1996, the biggest changes happen before most people notice.

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

Internet, 1996.
Tokenization, now.

Everyone talks about crypto, but very few understand how big this shift really is. BlackRock just explained it better than anyone. 🧵👇

[Eric Festa @ericfesta]

Forget the TradFi vs Crypto narrative.
Both sides are converging.
Soon you won’t have separate portfolios.

You’ll have one wallet for everything you own.

[Codechella @c0dechella]

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What does it mean to make AI “ownable”? 👇

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