Censorship as the first formal element of Dems’ 2028 platform would be genuinely insane, if not for the fact that many Republicans would love to see it as theirs too.

The House took a major step in asserting federal influence over online speech. A well intentioned bill, designed in part it seems to cap the unconstitutional excesses of a Senate counterpart, itself seeks to censor lawful speech. It directs the FTC and other government agencies to endorse identity verification and promote it through coercion. It does nothing to address the explosion of unconstitutional age verification laws at the state level—dozens of which NetChoice itself has successfully fought (Nebraska having been blocked just yesterday). The major selling point of the KIDS Act, the lack of a “duty of care” is fleeting, as states have passed, and would retain the ability to pass under this law, their own unconstitutional bills containing a duty of care. There has been, across every level of our government, no serious attempt to address constitutional infirmities inherent in these proposals, clarified repeatedly by courts over and over again. Indeed, the loudest voices today have championed even more violative approaches, like explicit content regulation, architectural mandates, and outright bans. Only a small minority of voices in the GOP House conference oppose this bill out of genuine responsibility to the constitution. All of these bills degrade privacy and security, materially diminish the First Amendment protections that young people and adults have a full right to as Americans, and bring the United States more in line with a global effort to undermine the free and open internet. These bills are nothing to celebrate.

She should have used AI to assess her disastrous data center moratorium. So bizarre to recognize the benefits of AI to taxpayers while banning the infrastructure and jobs that power them.

Love to see Rep Baumgartner taking the lead in defending American companies against discrimination by foreign bureaucrats. The EU shouldn’t feel empowered to treat our businesses as piggy banks. Also, Go Zags!