Caitlin Vogus
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And so the impacts on that group in particular can be very problematic.
People who want to maybe criticize or speak out against the government, their anonymity being impacted is extremely important.
And from our perspective at Freedom of the Press Foundation as a press freedom organization, the impact on journalists and confidential sources who might want to speak anonymously online together, it's hugely problematic to require them to verify their ages and therefore reveal their identities in order to get online.
Yeah, absolutely.
This is an argument that is rewarmed from the fights in the 1990s when the Communications Decency Act was passed.
That was a law that was about obscenity online.
The Supreme Court struck down most of that law, saying it violated the First Amendment.
Now we're seeing those same arguments being rehashed.
And as you said, some of the big tech companies are even embracing this because they know that they might be able to comply with these requirements, and they don't really care about users' privacy, and they could maybe drive their smaller competitors out of business.
So that's another reason why these bills are very problematic.
If we want a free internet that's not just dominated by the big tech platforms, well, this legislation is not going to give us that.
Yeah, that's a great point.
The tech companies have changed their positions at various times, and so I don't want to speak incorrectly as to which ones may or may not be endorsing this particular bill, because also, as I said, this legislation has a lot of different bills that have been kind of smashed into it in the Senate.
There's another version.
So it is changing all the time who is supporting what.
But unfortunately, we have seen some of the big tech companies come out and say that they would be okay with requirements like this, like age verification.
And I think that should be disturbing and send the signal that maybe this is not the route we should be going.
Sure.
Well, there's no doubt that the Trump administration has essentially declared war on the free press.
Just this past weekend, we saw that the Department of Justice subpoenaed New York Times journalists over their reporting about the Qatari jet that was offered to President Trump.
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