Taylor Lorenz

Listen, if we had, you know, Democrats that are progressive and have an amazing view of everything, maybe, you know, in the future, we could talk about sort of reforming some of these laws in certain ways.

But ultimately, we want to protect free speech and anonymity for journalists, for activists, for dissidents, for all the people that rely on it most.

And it's again, it's not going to make it a nicer web, unfortunately.

Yeah, I mean, I think what listeners need to remember is that these big tech platforms, they don't make money from free speech.

They don't make money from free expression.

What they make money from is harvesting data and then using that data to sell ads.

What allows them to harvest even more data

age and identity verification suddenly they're able to actually collect highly sensitive biometric data on children just yesterday trump's ftc said that they are going to stop kappa enforcement aka this child online protection act that prevents children's data from being harvested they're not going to enforce that as strictly anymore so that they can incentivize age verification

They're just giving it away.

This is harmful.

And if you think that these social media apps are addicting now, and you think that these algorithms are targeting you, they're doing that through harvesting data.

Just wait until they can harvest 10 times more data and the horrible things they'll do with it.

This is why these companies are excitedly pre-complying with these laws.

We need to take back control and we need to take back control.

We need to center privacy.

We need to protect activists.

We need to fight back against this Trump administration led and Heritage Foundation led agenda.

You know, you mentioned the Christian fundamentalists.

They have been trying to enact these policies since the 90s.

They've been loud about it.