Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation

Committed to promoting technology and innovation in the Pelican State.

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Whether you’re a 14-year-old scrolling TikTok or a 40-year-old searching recipes, ID checks could soon be required at nearly every step online under proposed laws.

These age verification tactics risk data breaches and could end online anonymity as we know it.

🖊️ @sarahemclaugh

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

America's families deserve better than the false promises of age verification.

[Taxpayers Protection Alliance @Protectaxpayers]

The KIDS Act is being sold as a child safety bill.

In reality, it creates incentives to verify users' ages, collect more personal data, expand government oversight, and burden innovation.

That's the wrong approach.

[Adrian Moore @reasonpolicy]

Texas’ regulation of app stores is patently unconstitutional restriction of free speech. For many Americans, mobile apps are now the primary means to access the internet’s wealth of protected expression, information, and speech-creating tools.
https://t.co/5fqWAi7mvw via @ReasonFdn

[Jennifer Huddleston @jrhuddles]

Each child and each family is unique. When it comes to kids online safety parents and other trusted adults not policymakers are the best guides to help young people navigate technology and deal with potentially negative situations.

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

Innovation thrives when entrepreneurs compete to build better products for consumers, not when government officials pick winners and losers.

Our latest looks at two troubling technology bills, the American Innovation Online Choice Act and the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund. https://t.co/M6kihNRb4i

[Wendy Davis @wendyndavis]

Conservative group @Patriot_Voices, founded by former Sen. Rick Santorum, asks SCOTUS to block Texas App Store Accountability Act. Says law "unconstitutionally intrudes into 'the relationship between parent and child.'"

[Logan Kolas @Logan_Kolas]

🚨🚨🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨🚨🚨

A new @consumerpal report by my colleague @gq_pablo dives deep into the research literature on social media and mental health.

CONCLUSION: Social media is the wrong mental health villain.

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

We are proud to join a coalition letter highlighting the risks to user privacy and free speech posed by KOSA and ASAA.

[Taxpayers Protection Alliance @Protectaxpayers]

🚨BREAKING: TPA led a coalition urging the @SenateCommerce to reject efforts to tie KOSA and ASAA to a federal AI framework.

These bills would require age verification, expand the collection of personal data, and create new risks for Americans online.

https://t.co/UzaZoeW3Eo

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

"AI is not passive. The technology is developing rapidly, growing the economy, changing the landscape of different industries, and becoming increasingly vital to national security and leadership. AI policy cannot be passive, either. A smart national public policy standard will create space for the free market to refine the way the technology is developed and used, and Congress, with its representatives elected by the American people, is uniquely positioned to chart the course." https://t.co/8VPtyfimBP

[Jennifer Huddleston @jrhuddles]

Talk about a literal nanny state

You’re literally saying you don’t trust teenagers or the teenagers’s parents to set their own bedtime

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

Great breakdown of the multitude of issues with the proposed Illinois social media tax "There are also free speech implications in taxes specifically targeted at some media platforms—specifically, those that enable the public to communicate and share information—and excluding others." https://t.co/5dK02uPN34

[NetChoice @NetChoice]

Illinois’ sloppy new social media tax is NOT ready for prime time 👎🚫🙅‍♀️🚮

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

Extending a warm Louisiana welcome to data centers and the ways they are strengthening our schools! https://t.co/wiKTBwUTRb

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

Proud to join a coalition standing against a bill that would hurt innovation and competition. #AICOA

"The competitive concerns the bill aims to address can be analyzed through the existing antitrust framework, which already provides authority to challenge anticompetitive conduct if it harms competition and consumers. What AICOA offers in its place is a heavy-handed regime that selects firms by size instead of market power, generally presumes conduct is harmful without proof, and replicates a foreign competition model the United States is otherwise working to contain."

[Information Technology and Innovation Foundation @ITIFdc]

Congress must reject the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA).

Read the letter here ⬇️
https://t.co/bMLq42BBHe

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

"AICOA would hurt consumers, introduce degraded security and privacy for users, and, ironically, diminish the ability of US tech companies, both large and small, to compete." https://t.co/5vbaP1r5Eo

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

The nuances of tax policy unfortunately obscure just how much data centers contribute to their communities.

Building things that serve people is good and oftentimes VERY good.

Data centers are bringing the growth and investment small communities have begged for.

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

"A rising tide lifts all boats." https://t.co/wH2vV1JJNN

[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

"Centralized government control of AI would undermine the very forces that made America the world’s technological leader: competition, entrepreneurial experimentation, dynamism, and freedom of thought. AI socialism must be rejected to preserve our freedoms and ensure America stays on the cutting-edge of the most important technological revolution of modern times." https://t.co/mb9vAu3Tmc

[Pelican Institute @PelicanInst]

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[Pelican Center for Technology and Innovation @Pelicans_tech]

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