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Blumenthal Thinks If Only The FTC Can Enforce KOSA It Won’t Be Abused; He’s Wrong

It’s pretty amazing to me just how wrong one Senator can be about the internet for years and years and years. But we’ve been writing about Senator Richard Blumenthal and never, ever letting his own…

The latest is that, in a paywalled article in Politico (thanks to a few of you who sent it over), Blumenthal (who denied there were any problems with the bill last year) says he’s open to changing the enforcement mechanism in the bill, potentially removing the provision that allows any state AG to enforce the law which would open it up to culture warrior AGs) and limiting it to just the FTC or possibly some other federal agency. And, then, if Trump were re-elected, does anyone actually think he wouldn’t install some culture war MAGA crony to run the FTC and use it to hammer “big tech” with lawsuits? But it involves the boring, less flashy (but actually effective) things that Blumenthal will never look to do, because they don’t get him headlines or big attention-grabbing hearings.

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