Give it a watch/listen! We’ll never get Parliament to admit that the Online Safety Act can’t be extraterritorially enforced. They will never do it. What they will do is they will quietly pivot, adjust their focus onto domestic targets or companies with UK establishments and focus on that, and then all of the extraterritorial stuff […]
Absolutely fantastic news: it seems that the GRANITE Act’s defensive provisions were adopted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, as an official model policy. I am advised that the vote to do so was unanimous. GRANITE was first proposed on this blog 10 months ago. GRANITE’s offensive provisions, the private right of action […]
The GRANITE Act, a foreign censorship shield bill to Guarantee Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion, is up for consideration as an ALEC model bill later this month. GRANITE started its life right here on this very blog on October 18, 2025. An expanded version, coauthored with Colin Crossman and Rep. Daniel Singh, was […]
Again, pretty self-explanatory blog post. I was on a pod. Please give it a watch! Also featuring Peter van Valkenburgh, Laz Pieper, Sam Enzer, Professor Eugene Volokh, and Professor Jane Bambauer.
Fairly self-explanatory. I took the two most serious current proposals for free speech reform emanating from London policy shops and compared them side-by-side. Here’s the comparison document in Google Docs. A screen cap is below; the full thing runs 10 pages. The ASI’s proposal is a complete draft bill, sweeping in application, with thirty-one sections […]