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Republicans are barreling toward remaking the internet | Kids online safety reform was one of the most bipartisan issues in Washington. That might be changing under Trump
House Republican leadership was the main roadblock to passing KOSA last year.
The Federal Trade Commission workshop held on Wednesday — billed as “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families” — was more aggressively partisan than past tech-focused events. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Katie Britt (R-AL), FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, and the agency’s other two Republican commissioners (the ones that remained after Trump broke Supreme Court precedent to attempt to fire their Democratic counterparts.) Cato free expression and technology fellow David Inserra wrote that he was initially invited to participate, but that “the real disappointment is that we lost the chance to have a fruitful discussion featuring different perspectives on an important policy issue.”
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