AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Visits Republicans as Debate Over AI Chips Race with China Rages
The Trump administration in May reversed restrictions that had prevented Nvidia and other chipmakers from exporting their chips.
Democracy
Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Revive FTC’s Click-to-Cancel Rule
Lawmakers want to make it easy to drop cable and Internet plans.
Section 230
GOP Senators Call Platforms ‘Publishers’ and Want to Strip Section 230 Protections, and Dems Aren’t Fans Either
November 17, 2020 – In the second major showdown between the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook and senators within less than three weeks, Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and John Kennedy of Louisiana said the social media platforms needed to be treated as common publish
Expert Opinion
Jeff Grappone: State of the Union Address Is No Longer the Political Equivalent of the Super Bowl
The State of the Union address used to be the political news equivalent of the Super Bowl. It was the one night of the year set aside for the president to speak directly to the American people. In the days leading up to the speech, Washington’s chattering class speculated as to what new policies or
Privacy
Republican and Democratic Senators Agree that Big Tech is Hoarding the Value of Consumers’ Digital Data
WASHINGTON, October 25, 2019 – A growing bipartisan consensus emerged from a Thursday Senate Banking Committee hearing that technology companies are improperly extracting the bulk of the value of consumers’ online digital data. Private companies are collecting and analyzing individual data for all k
Senate Appropriations
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Tackles Question of Public Versus Private Auction of C-Band Spectrum
WASHINGTON, October 17, 2019 – A Senate Appropriations subcommittee focused questions at a Thursday hearing on the Federal Communication Commission’s spectrum auctions on the dynamics of a public versus private auction of the C-Band. Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman John Kennedy, R-La., expr
FCC
Senate Democrats’ Vote Against Net Neutrality Repeal a ‘Political Tool,’ Charges TechFreedom
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2018 – Before the official date on which the Federal Communications Commission’s action changing net neutrality were to go into effect, conservative technology experts slammed a recent Senate vote to restore those Obama-era network neutrality protections “The [Congressional Revi
