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Chris Riley

Impact metrics and the metaphysics of Meta

Goodbye Facebook, hello Meta! The tech titan foremost in recent vitriolic media coverage is shifting its focus away from yesterday’s Big…

7 min readNov 9, 2021

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Chris Riley

The Great War blog series

I’ve been on a great writing kick over at R Street, most recently finishing up a 6-part blog series on what I call, with intentional…

3 min readMar 20, 2021

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The Great War blog series

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Chris Riley

The tortoise and the hare

Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 (or December 37th, 2020 if you prefer) will go down in history. Not that I think anyone reading this needs a…

5 min readJan 9, 2021

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Chris Riley

(External) Interoperability is key to tech competition

This week I published a piece in The American Conservative, “Interoperability is Key to Tech Competition.” You can read the whole article…

1 min readOct 21, 2020

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Chris Riley

The need for a robust critical community in content policy

Over this series of policy posts, I’m exploring the evolution of internet regulation from my perspective as an advocate for constructive…

6 min readSep 25, 2020

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Chris Riley

Badges

It’s time to move on.

3 min readSep 22, 2020

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Badges

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Chris Riley

Section 230 and Interoperability

Perhaps the most de rigeur issue in tech policy in 2020 is antitrust. The European Union made market power a significant component of its…

7 min readSep 10, 2020

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Chris Riley

It’s Time To Regulate The Internet… But Thoughtfully

[Note: This piece was originally published on TechDirt.]

6 min readSep 3, 2020

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Chris Riley

Weighting content suggestions, responsibly

One of the most vexing issues in my portfolio of policy work is how to handle harmful and unlawful user content on the internet — and in…

9 min readJul 26, 2019

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Weighting content suggestions, responsibly

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Chris Riley

Antitrust and its Discontents

My previous posts have focused specifically on interoperability — what that means in the digital platform ecosystem, and why it’s relevant…

7 min readJul 24, 2018

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Antitrust and its Discontents

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Chris Riley

Chris Riley

Disruptive internet policy engineer, beverage connoisseur, gregarious introvert, contrarian order Muppet, and proud husband & father. Not in order.

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