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Rick Lane: Creating a Safe, Secure & Sustainable Internet.
Category: Business
Duration: 00:36:24
Publish Date: 2020-10-08 03:05:00
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  • Today we’re speaking with Rick Lane a strategic advisor and the CEO of Iggy Ventures LLC.

    Rick has worn many hats in his career including coordinating the development and implementation of 21st Century Fox and News Corporation’s public policy activities and serving as an executive producer for Mary Mazzio’s documentary film “A Most Beautiful Thing”.

    He’s an expert on the future of work, looking at how a range of technologies are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds and how they impact all disciplines, economies and industries.

    Our conversation focuses on Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

    Topics include:

    • How the Communications Decency Act is related to National Security
      • How hostile governments are able to use our own laws as cover for geopolitical influence operations
    • Why platforms have an economic incentive to ignore illegal activity
    • Why the malfeasance we think of thriving on the “dark web” is actually happening, right now, the sunshiny space of social platforms.
    • If platforms are “publishers” and have a ‘duty of care’
    • How platforms’ large lobbying budgets and control of search algorithms is shaping legislation and public opinion.

    Rick joined News Corporation in 2001 as Vice President of Government Affairs and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2004. As one of the company’s top lobbyists, Rick Lane played an integral role in shaping Fox’s legislative and regulatory strategy in Washington, D.C. for fifteen years. Prior to joining News Corporation/21st Century Fox, Rick was the Director of E-Commerce and Congressional Affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he worked as at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal and Manges as the Director of Congressional Affairs and for the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.

    During the 1990’s Rick also created the educational technology private-public partnership, Modern Educational Technology Center (METEC), and CyberSports, Inc, a for-profit corporation which created the leading college and university sports recruiting software. He has served in leadership positions on a variety of federal, state, local commissions and committees, including his participation as a member of the United States Trade Representative’s Joint Government-Private Sector Committee on Experts on Electronic Commerce. Rick also served on the Federal Trade Commission’s Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and the Virginia Attorney General’s Online Safety Task Force.

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