The latest anti-tech legislation in Congress (S.560) would seriously threaten free speech online and creators’ ability to monetize content while also subjecting tech companies to a flood of frivolous or unfair lawsuits. The bill—dubbed the “Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act”—comes from Democratic Sens. Mark Warner (Va.), Mazie Hirono […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis skipped this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), but his ideas were still on display. Conservatives and Republican officeholders gathered in the Washington, D.C., area for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured among the schedule of events and appearances was one talk titled “Big Tech– Break […]
The Supreme Court just heard arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a case which news outlets across the ideological spectrum agree will determine the future of free speech on the internet. The headlines are not wrong; a decision against Google could devastate the critical speech-enhancing statute that provides websites the protection they need to host user […]
Justice Clarence Thomas has emerged in recent years as the Supreme Court’s biggest critic of Big Tech. Like many modern conservatives, Thomas seems to believe both that social media companies routinely censor conservative viewpoints and that the government should do something about it. Thomas has even spelled out his own preferred vision of how the […]