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Lest anyone should doubt CEI’s consistency or sincerity of belief in principle, check that date:
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Did my wonderful
@ceidotorg
colleagues write up a mock press release to announce my engagement internally? Of course they did. I’m a lucky girl on multiple fronts.
Today's top story..
Our very own Jessica Melugin (
@melugin_p
) and friend of CEI
@ChrisStirewalt
of
@AEI
@TheDispatch
@NewsNation
are engaged to be married!
Both are fun-loving, gregarious, and incredibly talented. A Washington power couple in the best sense possible.
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It’s amazing that Heritage has moved so far away from the basics of conservatism to be conflating and confusing natural rights with positive rights.
Despite what the new Twitter CEO might think, American lawmakers have a duty to protect and defend the rights given to us by God and enshrined in our Constitution by the founders—rights that specific tech companies are actively and deliberately eroding.
@karaafrederick
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The pony equivalent of dog snow zoomies this morning at breakfast.
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Not policy related, so please indulge me in posting about this magnificent travel partner to the
@ceidotorg
summit in Edinburgh. Could not love
@ChrisStirewalt
more.
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Big day for bad ideas.
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Obviously “financier of climate change denial” makes zero sense for a nonprofit, but flattering to be called the “lead” in opposing an FTC that’s out to harm consumers. I’ll take it!
Glad you had a good time, although registering and telling us you plan to attend is always the right move.
Thanks for publishing your feedback on drinks not being strong enough, we didn't actually get it.
User error on the QR code? Maybe the🍸were stronger than you thought!
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I don’t know about “heavyweight,” maybe more of a Welter or Middle, but I appreciate the mention for sure…
Washington heavyweights lining up against embattled FTC Chair Linda Khan
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Can confirm
House Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member Ken Buck: “I don’t understand antitrust law”
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Handing the FTC more authority with KOSA makes no sense.
🚨It has been a HUGE week for House Republican oversight of Lina Khan's out-of-control FTC. 🚨
On Monday,
@GOPoversight
slammed Khan for stonewalling Oversight's investigation and demanded transcribed interviews with 5 senior staffers on Khan’s various abuses of power and
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Stipulated that there’s other news in DC today, but this case could impact millions of small businesses using the Amazon platform and nearly 150 million Prime subscribers in the U.S.
The FTC’s case against Amazon is a waste of taxpayer money, but consumers will pay the price if it’s successful. | By Jessica Melugin
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@jess_miers
Shifting the conversation from the merits of the arguments to who’s allowed to have an opinion based on funding is always the tell for who doesn’t have a very good argument.
We all go work where we are aligned, not the other way around - and they know it.
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Federal agencies are not known for their love of innovation…
Biden’s AI order risks too much regulatory harm in exchange for avoiding risks inherent in adoption of new technologies. | By Jessica Melugin
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It’s true; they do.
Antitrust regulators distrust the artificial-intelligence market even at its most competitive. |
@melugin_p
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“…First Amendment interests extend beyond the rights of the speaker and include the rights of the recipients to access information and ideas.”
Anyone defending TikTok:
You’re not defending the First Amendment. Our First Amendment doesn’t apply to the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.
They use TikTok to collect data and can weaponize that into the greatest propaganda machine against Americans we have ever seen.
Sorry that
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We live in a dynamic world, unless the FTC makes it static.
The FTC's focus is on the past, while Amazon is trying to discover the future. If and when it does, it will have near 100% market share (instead of the 38 percent that has Lina Khan so worked up) of a space that FTC ankle-biters won't care about.
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Come join us for great conversations and some Miami stuff!
Check out our confirmed speakers at this year’s Tech and Innovation Summit!
Join us in discussions about sci-fi, federal tech policy, cybersecurity, fueling the future of tech innovation and more!
Come to Miami September 20-21; you won’t regret it:
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A little chat about the absurd FTC case against Amazon’s Prime at 10am, if you’re so inclined…
Today on
@davidwebbshow
9am-12pm ET
9:30am
@tracybyrnes
10:00am
@melugin_p
11:00am
@Love4America1st
Call in 866-957-2874
@SIRIUSXM
Ch. 125
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Can we just not mess up broadband with government nonsense?
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A big thank you to
@cspanwj
for having me and for
@MimiGeerges
for making it such a pleasure to talk 1st Amendment this morning!
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Was so pleased to join them this morning!
“The problem with age verification is the privacy tradeoff.”
@melugin_p
Great first panel discussing child safety online and the tradeoffs around government attempts to place safety initiatives.
Thank you, Stacey Rumenap,
@melugin_p
,
@statelinx
and
@taylordbarkley
!
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Section 230 facilitates third-party speech, the First Amendment means private platforms can take down what they don’t want to host and government regulation of speech is a bad idea - these things are true no matter if the owner of a platform votes the way I do or not.
They [conservatives] ought to appreciate the way that Section 230 reduces the potential legal consequences and costs of carrying what some on the left might, fairly or unfairly, deem “dangerous misinformation.”
writes CEI's
@melugin_p
in
@NRO
today
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Spoiler alert: I’m not a big fan
SAT| Join us tomorrow as CEI's (
@ceidotorg
) Jessica Melugin (
@melugin_p
) discusses the Department of Homeland Security's proposed establishment of a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat misinformation in the U.S., focusing on Russia and U.S.-Mexico border. Live at 8am ET!
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Shamelessly playing my ‘parent of two’ card: teaching kids how to use tech responsibly is the long-term answer AND remembering that regulations put bureaucrats in control, not parents 🚩🚩🚩
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This guy…
The president of
@ceidotorg
@KentatCEI
swam the English Channel on Tuesday.
13 hrs, 27 minutes, to go 33 miles from England to France, in 60-degree water.
He is one of only about 2,000 people to ever complete the "Everest of Swimming."
New from me
@NRO
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Forgive the personal life-related post, but just so excited for this wonderful man!
The Hill Sunday with
@ChrisStirewalt
premieres Sunday, March 3rd at 10 a.m. ET! To find your
#NewsNation
channel visit
#TheHillNN
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‘“If we make carveouts for all the pro-consumer features, then the bill will be useless,’ the staffer for Grassley said.”
So if the bill’s use isn’t pro-consumer, then what is it? 🚩🚩
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If my Nancy Reagan dress doesn’t change minds, I don’t know what will
As the
@FCC
proposes reinstating net neutrality, CEI's
@melugin_p
explains why bringing back outdated utility-style regulations won't improve broadband in America. 👇
Learn more:
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If those kind enough to follow me for tech policy could indulge me in a photo on the occasion of my oldest turning ten, I’d be grateful. Truly, he is a gentleman and a scholar. I love his guts.
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These guys made it so fun to talk about how ridiculous this lawsuit is.
"To spend those resources going after one of America's most trusted companies...is a real misstep for the
@FTC
," says
@melugin_p
after the federal agency sued $AMZN for allegedly tricking customers into signing up for Prime.
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Check out
@alex_reinauer
‘s FTC Timeline from
@ceidotorg
It’s super upsetting; you’re going to love it.
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Former Gore speech writer is the man behind the Biden EO on AI. Wake up populist Republicans.
I thought the Biden EO on Artificial Intelligence was policy-by-committee but I guess it was just one boomer working through his trauma over social media?
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Maybe we let one of the most promising technologies so far this century play out until, you know, something illegal happens?
Competition itself is a discovery process, and regulators at the FTC do not have a cheat sheet with all the answers. |
@melugin_p
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Consumer welfare remains the legal precedent – maybe that idea should be extended to not wasting taxpayer money bringing senseless lawsuits.
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How you have fun in Orlando in July; namely, inside.
Great crowd for
@JmsMadisonInst
workshop on properly protecting teens online with good public policy -
@EdwardLonge
leading a panel of three great experts including
@melugin_p
and
@byeager76
@ALEC_states
#FlaPol
#ALEC2023
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Government’s left hand tilting the playing field in favor of government entities, while its right hand accuses private companies of anticompetitive behavior. Glass houses and all that…
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25 is the new monopoly
Apparently, 25 firms competing is a "lack of competition," according to our President.
Words have no meaning any more.
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Yeah, I said it
"Handicapping market leaders by denying their ability to offer services, combinations and suggestions that their users enjoy and value isn’t the point of U.S. antitrust law."
CEI's
@melugin_p
on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
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Kids on social media can be challenging for parents, but government meddling is no solution. Better to empower parents to educate their kids.
Parents—not the government—are the best positioned to decide what is right for their families online.
There are abundant digital tools available to parents right now to help them keep their kids safe online.
As more parents become aware of these tools, they can harness more
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Be cool, America…
There’s no existential threat from Artificial Intelligence at the moment and we can't predict the future.. yet the race is on to regulate AI.
As CEI's
@melugin_p
explains, preemptively regulating AI could jeopardize the next big technological breakthrough.
Watch the 📹 👇
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Glass-Steagall harmful for banking sector and repealed, net neutrality regs harmful for telecom investment and repealed; why make the same mistake in tech antitrust?
#weknowhowthisends
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We used to trust American’s so much that we translated the official USSR daily into English for them to read. Now Congress thinks we’re too dumb to discern propaganda from truth. That’s a much bigger problem for this republic than TikTok.
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Section 230 holds space for private actors to make decisions with their private property. You may not like those decisions, but throwing over property and speech rights won’t get you to a better ultimate outcome. Persuasion not coercion is always the (hard) answer.
Republicans are getting massively played on Section 230 by the Left, and if they keep at it, we’re all going to have less of a voice online,
Fortunately, more and more conservatives are waking up.
Watch my quick 10 minute crash course for everything you
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No concept of the discipline the market provides - and how it is infinitely more effective and more efficient in producing good outcomes. Bonkers.
No expert agency regulating the internet!? 😱😱😱
Judging from this sentence, you'd think they were out there laying the fiber themselves.
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Was honored to be included!
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An illuminating conversation about what was intended by Section 230 - and an absolute pleasure to speak with such a smart, principled and lovely human.
NEW:
@melugin_p
of
@ceidotorg
joins former Rep. Chris Cox to dig into Section 230, how the First Amendment protects online speech, and the politics of moderating content. Watch here:
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A rare non-work tweet, because when my son hangs out with a mule, I’m going to put it on Twitter
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As the U.S. considers adopting EU-style regulations…
"Europe’s feeble digital economy is a blight on the Continent. It has no tech giants of its own and that shows little sign of changing." -
@s8mb
in the
@Telegraph
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Remember when Dems cared about the First Amendment and Repubs preferred parental control over government meddling? Now they’re both “bipartisan” by abandoning those principles at Senate Commerce markup of COPPA and KOSA. Ugh.
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Please indulge me in a rare non-tech policy post because snow and children and ponies are the best.
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Such a pleasure to talk antitrust bills, consumer benefits and big tech with Cheddar News tonight.
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Well, what’a ya know…
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Wisdom:
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You guys…
Conservatives should embrace content moderation on social media platforms.
CEI's
@melugin_p
in our first "Not A Policy Paper, Just A Thought" video series.
Learn more:
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You don’t say…
Just in: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the dismissal of a NY-led group of states suing Meta to unwind the Instagram and WhatsApp deals. A similiar case from the FTC is ongoing.
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Thanks to
@FoxBusiness
for having me to talk about mistakes at the ‘economic frontier’ and market signals to correct.
"We worry about Big Tech being so big.. but it's the little companies that have the advantage here.. if i'm a startup in Silicon Valley, i've got more time to get it just right."
CEI's
@melugin_p
on Google's Gemini AI tool mishaps and competition in the marketplace
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With many thanks to
@LawEconCenter
for including me in this excellent series…
In the latest contribution to
@TOTMblog
's digital symposium on "The FTC's New Normal,"
@melugin_p
of
@ceidotorg
examines the history of structural presumptions at the
@FTC
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Rumblings about KOSA being re-upped, so just a reminder: don’t do it.
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Folks, it’s out of control
Laws Have Mercy: Here Is How Biden Is Restricting Access To Regulatory Guidance Documents
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The First Amendment protects the moderation practices of these private companies AND government should not be pressuring companies on those decisions, either from the left or the right. I mean what I say.
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Empirical evidence seems to mean nothing to the majority of the
@fcc
They are determined to break what doesn’t need fixing. Have they been spending too much time with the
@ftc
?
COVID was the ultimate stress test of global Internet policy.
Networks in Europe - subject to heavy handed, intrusive regs - strained to keep up with capacity demands.
Networks in the U.S. continued to perform due to greater investments than in Europe.
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And what ensures his freedom to do so? The First Amendment! And what prevents that 1A right from being subject to costly litigation? Section 230!
Mike Lindell announces that his new "free speech" social media platform will ban swearing and taking the Lord's name in vain because it's a "Judeo-Christian platform."
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The FTC’s framing of this should tell you a lot about them already having made up their minds. There are lots of problems with the US healthcare system, but “corporate greed” ain’t it.
We need less government in this area, not more regulation:
FTC,
@JusticeATR
, and
@HHSGov
launch cross-government inquiry on impact of corporate greed in health care:
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The only way dating in DC could get worse?
If you liked municipal broadband networks, you're gonna love municipal dating apps. Actively soliciting expert commentary on this idea from tech/telecom experts
@MagloughlinA
,
@jeffreywestling
, &
@melugin_p
.
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All credit to those two gentlemen - I’m just out here hawking it and grateful for their excellent work.
Today, CEI releases a new paper warning against recent efforts by
@FTC
@linakhanFTC
to turn back the clock on merger guidelines.
Thank you Bruce H. Kobayashi, and Timothy J. Muris and
@melugin_p
for your expert analysis.
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A little late night tech chit chat…
A federal judge calls the Biden administration’s collaboration with social media companies “dystopian.”
I’ll talk more about what the judge’s decision means and the precedent it sets with
@melugin_p
on
#TheFinal5
on
#FOX5DC
at 11:30.
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This thread is important for anyone who thinks repealing/gutting Section 230 will benefit conservative voices online or punish big tech for being leftist.
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Opportunity cost, it’s a thing.
"To truly modernize regulation, OMB must take into account opportunity cost and ignore the economists of the day who have forgotten a core concept of their discipline."
Writes
@JamesBroughel
in the
@WSJ
today.
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EARNIT moving forward in Senate, but would disincentivize platforms from offering encryption, like Musk wants to after Twitter Files revealed gov access to DMs. Maybe he’ll call some friends on the Hill and explain how things actually work. 🤞
@elonmusk
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I think that’s the most polite way I can say it.
There are quite a few troubling questions about the way that the FTC is currently being run. | Jessica Melugin
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Lots of good stuff from AI to come, if we let it. (We should let it.)
This is pretty cool.
Apple Vision Pro headset becomes tool in operating room
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When I’m asked what parents can do, I answer “give them a flip phone instead, use tools to limit or monitor their online activity and talk to your kids - parent!” As a single, working mom I know firsthand it’s ’one more thing’ but it remains the real answer.
No one dare go near a baby cub given what the Mother bear will do in response. It's evolutionary. So is the parental instinct to protect children. It's so basic, yet Surgeon General Murthy seeks a "Warning Label" on social media given his speculation that it harms adolescents.
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Wherein I am quoted using the term “chupacabra” to describe tech policy. So, I mean, pretty cool stuff…
Republican House shifting tech focus from antitrust to censorship, more investigations
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Ya think?! These performative actions are a cancer in the tech space.
News: A federal judge has tossed the RNC's lawsuit accusing Google of illegally suppressing its emails through spam filtering on Gmail
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I think the reason it happened is less important than the market correction consumer outrage provides. (But obviously the images provided were bonkers.)
Is the horrendous rollout of Gemini a "Bud Light" moment for Google?
@melugin_p
and
@shellenberger
weigh in and there is disagreement.
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Giving it my best Fred L. Smith energy…
What to do about Big Tech? We asked
@AsheeshKAgarwal
,
@jrhuddles
,
@melugin_p
, and
@WeTheBrandon
for their thoughts:
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@rachelbovard
because I share your concern, here’s draft legislation that seeks to address the problem of government violating the First Amendment when it pressures private companies to moderate content.
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The reality: hamstringing U.S. companies is not a good prescription for global competitiveness…
In the best-case scenario, the Khan agenda at FTC will slow down the pace of innovation in technologies, namely AI. Read the full study by
@TheMedianJoe
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The ultimate meeting that could have been an email, but if we must have State of the Union Addresses…
President Biden’s tone during the State of the Union Address will be a good indication of what we can expect things to get done over the next year. CEI scholars share more ->
@melugin_p
@SeanGHiggins
@regoftheday
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Free speech by owners of private property is a thing
“Because the First Amendment gives wide latitude to private platforms that choose to prefer their own political viewpoints, Congress can (in the words of the First Amendment) ‘make no law’ to change this result.”
- Chris Cox (R), co-author of Section 230
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Whatever your opinions are on climate, an IPCC for AI is not the way…
Why creating an international body for AI is a bad idea
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It just feels like that some days. But I am very privileged to work with these great people trying to hold space for liberty, prosperity and economic freedom.
Great promo video for the work we do from my colleagues at
@ceidotorg
. (At this point I think
@melugin_p
is in cable news talking about the FTC approximately 3-5 times per day.)
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My letter in WSJ responding to the Sunset Section 230 proposal:
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Seriously, KOSA is a bad idea:
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To save consumers from the perks…
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act doesn’t live up to its name.
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Fake accents only on the call-in lines, please.
SUN| Competitive Enterprise Institute's Jessica Melugin (
@melugin_p
) discusses House Republicans' "Big Tech" agenda, including the formation of House subcommittee that will, in part, investigate certain practices of social media platforms.
Watch live at 9:15am ET!
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Ladies and germs, the genius of
@wayne_crews
Ohio’s Attorney General wants Google declared a public utility, and as a common carrier, Google would be required to make all search results neutral and.. equal?
😂🤦♂️
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The man himself…
Ahead of oral arguments next week in the
#SCOTUS
case Gonzalez v. Google, we think it’s important to hear about
#Section230
from the law’s co-author, former Rep. Chris Cox.
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