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Fire PIT Chat with Billy Easley, Senior Public Policy Lead, Reddit

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Join Penn’s Public Interest Technology initiative online for a discussion with headshot for PIT UN speaker Bill Easley. Man with dark skin and black hair smiling at camera wearing black glasses and a grey blazer, brown tie, and white shirt Mr. Billy Easley, Senior Public Policy Lead at Reddit. We will discuss the intersection of law, technology, and public policy, what it is like to work on issues that are at the forefront of many public policy debates, and the lessons he has learned about working across the diverse perspectives represented in these debates.

 

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About Billy Easley
Billy Easley is the head of US Public Policy at Reddit, where he covers content moderation, privacy, and copyright issues for the social media platform on both the state and federal level. He previously worked on tech and criminal justice issues for Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and for the policy team at Americans for Prosperity. He is a native Texan and would usually rather be playing Dungeons and Dungeons than working.

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