2025-12-13
President Trump took an important step today to promote American leadership in AI. We don't want China's values of surveillance and communist control governing AI. We want American values of free speech, individual liberty, and respect for the individual. [video]
Reuters
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...
President Trump took an important step today to promote American leadership in AI. We don't want China's values of surveillance and communist control governing AI. We want American values of free speech, individual liberty, and respect for the individual. [video]
Axios
Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.
2025-12-12
President Trump took an important step today to promote American leadership in AI. We don't want China's values of surveillance and communist control governing AI. We want American values of free speech, individual liberty, and respect for the individual. [video]
Reuters
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …
2025-09-11
The future prosperity of American workers depends on American victory in the race for AI. That's why I have introduced legislation to create a regulatory sandbox for AI that will allow developers to waive or modify regulations that could impede their work. More: [video]
Reuters
US Senator Ted Cruz introduces a bill that would let AI companies apply for exemptions from federal regulation to help them experiment in developing new tech
Jody Godoy / Reuters :
2025-05-20
The TAKE IT DOWN ACT is an historic win for victims of revenge porn and deepfake image abuse. Predators who weaponize new technology to post this exploitative filth will now rightfully face criminal consequences, and Big Tech will no longer be allowed to turn a blind eye to the spread of this vile material...
404 Media
Civitai blames a “configuration issue” for allowing users to generate non-consensual porn; it appears that users can still create such videos of non-celebrities
404 Media found that people were using Civitai to create nonconsensual AI porn videos of anyone for a small price. Bluesky: @josephcox and @emanuelmaiberg . Mastodon: @jbhall56@inf...
The TAKE IT DOWN ACT is an historic win for victims of revenge porn and deepfake image abuse. Predators who weaponize new technology to post this exploitative filth will now rightfully face criminal consequences, and Big Tech will no longer be allowed to turn a blind eye to the spread of this vile material...
The Verge
Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images and requiring platforms to promptly remove them when notified
The bill sailed through Congress with a focus on deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
2025-05-09
When I was the Ranking Member, I repeatedly urged the Biden NTIA to halt its unconstitutional, race-based “digital equity” spending. I am glad that President Trump and his team will finally be putting an end to this impermissible discrimination. I look forward to continuing
New York Times
Trump threatens to end the Digital Equity Act, a Biden-era law aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling it “racist” and “totally unconstitutional”
President Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” …
2025-04-29
The passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act is a historic win in the fight to protect victims of revenge porn and deepfake abuse. This victory belongs first and foremost to the heroic survivors who shared their stories and the advocates who never gave up. By requiring social media companies to take down this abusive content quickly, we are sparing victims from repeated trauma and holding predators accountable...
Washington Post
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them
Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
2025-02-04
Congratulations to my Telecom Policy Director, @ArielleRoth, for being nominated to lead NTIA! Arielle led my legislative and oversight efforts on communications and broadband policy with integrity, creativity, and dedication. She has fought to defend the taxpayer, free speech,
Bloomberg
Sources: the Trump admin plans to nominate Arielle Roth, a critic of Biden's $42.5B broadband infrastructure plan, to lead the NTIA, which oversees the project
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg :
2025-01-03
Today is a great day for American consumers and the rule of law. As I argued in my amicus brief in support of the petitioners, the FCC's resurrection of so-called net neutrality was a regulatory power grab that violated the plain meaning of the Communications Act. I applaud the Sixth Circuit's decision to “end the FCC's vacillations” and hopefully put this unnecessary and harmful game of regulatory ping pong to rest!
Reuters
A US appeals court rules the FCC did not have legal authority to reinstate net neutrality rules; incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr opposed the 2024 reinstatement
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.
2024-02-01
When a child sexual abuse warning pops up on Instagram, users are given the option to “see results anyway.” What was Zuckerberg thinking? [video]
Washington Post
A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord
When a child sexual abuse warning pops up on Instagram, users are given the option to “see results anyway.” What was Zuckerberg thinking? [video]
TechCrunch
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...
For every 2 posts on Instagram with hashtags of “Taylor Swift” there is 1 on TikTok. But that difference jumped 174-to-1 while using the “Hong Kong Protest” hashtag. China and TikTok are censoring what is posted on their platform for the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.... [video]
TechCrunch
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...
For every 2 posts on Instagram with hashtags of “Taylor Swift” there is 1 on TikTok. But that difference jumped 174-to-1 while using the “Hong Kong Protest” hashtag. China and TikTok are censoring what is posted on their platform for the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.... [video]
Washington Post
A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord
In June of 2023, I wrote a letter to Meta asking how many times their child sexual abuse warning was shown on their platform. They refused to answer it. Mark Zuckerberg has 5 days to get me and the Senate Judiciary Committee that number. [video]
TechCrunch
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...
In June of 2023, I wrote a letter to Meta asking how many times their child sexual abuse warning was shown on their platform. They refused to answer it. Mark Zuckerberg has 5 days to get me and the Senate Judiciary Committee that number. [video]
Washington Post
A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord
2022-09-23
Today I secured significant protections against Big Tech censorship with an amendment to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2022. 1/x https://www.cruz.senate.gov/ ...
Reuters
A US Senate committee votes to approve the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, letting news organizations jointly negotiate with big tech platforms
Big Tech hates the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. My amendment to JCPA is the first meaningful consequence for and protection against censorship based on viewpoint and content by Big Tech! https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
A US Senate committee votes to approve the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, letting news organizations jointly negotiate with big tech platforms
This is a major win for free speech and it strikes a blow against the virtual monopoly that Big Tech has to limit the information that Americans see online. The bottom line is Big Tech hated this bill from the start and now they hate it even more. 4/x
Reuters
A US Senate committee votes to approve the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, letting news organizations jointly negotiate with big tech platforms
I'm laser focused on preventing censorship and protecting free speech. My amendment to JCPA would protect against anti-trust liability being used as a shield for censorship. https://twitter.com/...
Reuters