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While tech companies compete to build a robust Digital Safety Shield that empowers parents, lawmakers keep pushing unworkable mandates like KOSA and ASAA. As NetChoice’s @ZacharyLeeLee explains, private innovation protects families far better and far faster than government overreach ever could. Read the full piece to see why Congress needs to trust parents, not digital censors ⤵️

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🚨BREAKING: The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is back. AICOA punishes size, not anticompetitive conduct, putting America's most successful innovators at a disadvantage. Congress should reject government picking winners and losers. protectingtaxpayers.org/press/taxpayer…

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AICOA HAS LOST SUPPORT EVERY TIME IT’S BEEN INTRODUCED. 📉 Senators on the bill 2022: 14 2023: 8 2026: Just 6 The latest effort is the weakest yet. AICOA is a proven political loser because it raises prices and degrades the secure tech products Americans love.

Europe has a well-documented innovation problem. While it once led the world in industrial and scientific achievement, its digital economy has fallen further behind because its policies tax + punish success rather than building it. America should NOT follow their failures.

NetChoice @NetChoice

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If Washington pulls up a chair to the boardrooms of frontier AI labs, it won’t accelerate our progress; it will grind it to a screeching halt.

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@ForeignAffairs @JMchangama Once built, censorship infrastructure is hard to tear down — today’s European leaders may not always have the reins of power as populist movements surge in the polls. 🔗Read why European democracies need to change course before it’s too late: foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/red…

Ending anonymity. Expanding speech bans. State-ordered takedowns. These are pillars of the Internet in China, Russia, and Iran. Increasingly, they have become features of European policy. In @ForeignAffairs, @JMchangama examines how Europe lost the plot on online speech.

"A rising tide lifts all boats." shreveporttimes.com/story/news/202…

Tech's water usage is better described as small, transparent, flexible & responsible. The industry also pays to cover the costs of building and needed upgrades to water infrastructure, rather than residents bearing those.

NetChoice @NetChoice

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Congress Shouldn’t Adopt European Economic Failures That Harm Americans WASHINGTON—Today, a few senators decided to resuscitate the failed American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), which largely replicates failed economic policies from Europe that have contributed to the continent’s innovative stagnation. "AICOA remains a deeply flawed piece of legislation that punishes American success rather than targeting actual misconduct," said Amy Bos, NetChoice Vice President of Government Affairs. "By targeting a handful of companies based largely on their reach and popularity rather than demonstrated harm, this bill abandons the time-tested consumer welfare standard that has guided American antitrust law for decades. In its place, it installs a bloated regulatory framework that repeats the exact mistakes of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).” Bos continued: "If passed, AICOA will directly degrade the tech products that Americans use and love. Many of the integrated features consumers rely on every day, from digital maps embedded in search results to pre-installed apps, seamless account integration, and built-in, industry leading security protections, could be legally challenged under AICOA. The result is not more innovation, but worse products that are less convenient, less secure and less useful." The DMA forces companies to redesign popular services based on regulatory preferences rather than the preferences of consumers—people who know what they and their families need. It also treats American innovators like piggy banks, extracting multi-million-Euro fines to fill their coffers. The United States should learn from Europe’s failed experiment, not import a bureaucratic regime that has generated massive compliance costs, product disruptions and deep uncertainty without delivering a meaningful benefit to everyday consumers. AICOA would hand a massive competitive advantage to our foreign rivals. At a time when the United States is locked in a fierce global competition in artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, Congress should not be imposing failed, heavy-handed restrictions on American innovators. Weakening domestic technology leaders risks ceding critical ground to foreign competitors, particularly those backed by adversarial governments that do not share America's commitment to free enterprise, privacy and free expression. Finally, AICOA chills the next generation of innovation. Every successful startup hopes to scale up and become the next great American technology company, but AICOA would tell entrepreneurs: if you become too successful, the government will single you out for special restrictions that do not apply to your competitors. That discourages investment in new ideas, reduces the incentive to innovate, and ultimately harms America’s entire economic ecosystem. Congress has tried and failed to pass this bill before. Each time, lawmakers have rightly recognized that AICOA would raise costs, reduce choices and weaken American competitiveness. Reintroducing it today doesn't magically fix its fundamental flaws. The Senate should set this bill aside for good and let American innovation keep doing what it does best: delivering for consumers. Please contact [email protected] with inquiries.

Meta’s new America’s Workforce Academy, a $115 million private-sector initiative aimed at rapidly training skilled tradespeople, demonstrates how supporting data center development supports Americans, our jobs, and our communities. 🇺🇸 Read more from @SteveDelBianco below ⤵️

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If you regulate the manner in which people can receive and impart information, that is, in fact, an attack on free speech. The UK is the second country in the West (the first: Australia) to require adults to "show their papers" to see the Web as it actually is. Not a good look.

GB News @GBNEWS

2 days ago

‘This is not an attack on free speech or freedom.’ Founder of Unplugged Coalition, Jennifer Powers, says Australia did Britain a favour by being the first to impose an under-16s social media ban, suggesting there is a lot of ‘hysteria’ among free speech campaigners.

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Louder for the American lawmakers infatuated with EU-style regulations in the back.

Elsa @elsathora

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Currently flying over the mountains of Colorado with faster WiFi than I have at home What are we doing wrong in Europe? The USA has completely radicalised me within 48 hours

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my thoughts on the new Illinois social media tax law: “It’s a pretty straightforward tax on speech, and a discriminatory one at that. It basically suggests that it’s alright for government to be singling out types of media or media platforms that it does not like and assessing special taxes accordingly.” And I have plenty of other concerns...

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Rather than follow the EU’s Digital Markets Act, CEI’s Jessica Melugin (@melugin_p) warns that AICOA-style regulation risks slowing product rollouts, weakening platform integration, and reducing consumer benefits in the U.S. tech ecosystem. cei.org/blog/the-eu-ra…

In 2025, @IDTheftCenter found that the number of data compromises has jumped 79% over the last 5 years. Governments requiring users to hand over I.D.'s for lawful speech essentially creates a honeypot of data for hackers & predators to exploit.

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With renewed buzz around KOSA and the App Store Accountability Act, it's important for policymakers to remember that the market is already responding to demand for more safety features for kids online (see, for example, Apple's announcement yesterday from WWDC)