Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) want to create a new federal agency to regulate major tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and social media platforms. Among other things, their Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act is designed to assist the federal government’s…
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham want to create a new federal agency to regulate major tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and social media platforms. Among other things, their Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act is designed to assist the federal government’s crackdown on what it deems harmful speech.
One paragraph also reads: ‘‘The Commission shall establish a standardized policy that operators of dominant platforms can adopt regarding content moderation and appeals of content moderation decisions.” And of course, no overreaching bill is complete without a broad mandate to protect “national security,” that catch-all term used to attack every civil liberty we hold dear. As we know from the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the government may dishonestly label anything a foreign threat to justify suppressing it.
But as a Republican, Graham has at least pretended to be concerned about the suppression of all legal speech. Perhaps he thought this was the best Big Tech bill that could survive in a divided Congress at the moment. The good arguments against it, though, vastly outweigh its merits.
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