Kansas aims to regulate adult websites due to missing age restrictions for access

This week, four cases were initiated in Kansas, aiming to hold a pornographic website accountable for not adhering to state laws that mandate the implementation of age verification systems. Currently, there are no federal regulations requiring these sites to check users’ ages. The lawsuit, brought forth by the National Center for Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and […]

56% lack confidence in the government’s ability to regulate AI

As the US stands in a band of $500 billion in artificial intelligence, a new study reveals deep public skepticism about governments' ability to regulate technology. New polling data from research firm Prolific reveals a major disconnect between public expectations and government AI strategies. Through its verified participants platform, the company surveyed a representative survey […]

‘Government Overreach’: Liz Warren’s Favorite Agency Just Granted Itself New Powers To Regulate Checking Accounts

In December, the lame-duck Biden administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced rules to curb overdraft penalties, which experts say is an example of government overreach that hurts low-income Americans. told the Daily Caller News Foundation. CFPB — that's the agency. considered The brainchild of Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the rules were finalized just […]

Harris Hasn’t Actually Given Specifics on How She’d Regulate Fracking

On CNN's “Inside Politics” broadcast on Friday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has barely changed her position on fracking, claiming that she doesn't want to ban fracking altogether, but hasn't actually spoken about plans to regulate it in the future. Marin said:[T]here [are] There are […]

Pelosi rips California bill to regulate AI models: ‘ill-informed’

Representative Nancy Pelosi has voiced opposition to a high-profile California bill that would regulate Big Tech companies’ burgeoning artificial intelligence technology, calling the measure “well-intentioned but ill-informed.” California’s SB 1047, which would establish safety standards for AI models that cost more than $100 million to train and mandate pre-release safety testing of so-called “frontier” AI […]

Europe's plot to regulate political speech in America

Eighty years ago, the US government launched a war bond campaign with a Norman Rockwell painting depicting the struggle against authoritarian threats in Europe. The government chose Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech,” a painting of a man standing up in a Vermont assembly to speak his mind. The painting rallied the nation to what Louis Brandeis […]