Article III Project founder Mike Davis warned this morning on Bannon’s “War Room” that the “Big, Beautiful” bill could repeat the mistakes of the past and give AI companies the same kind of legal immunity that social media companies enjoyed and used over the past decade to distort markets and political discourse:

MIKE DAVIS: What’s happening in the Senate today is so crucially important. These $ 1 trillion Big Tech monopolists, particularly Google and Meta — definitely no friends of President Trump and MAGA — are trying to cut a deal where they’re getting 10 years of amnesty so they can steal people’s creative content, harm kids, and censor conservatives. They want to be able to get away with this, like they did with Section 230 immunity, just like they did with antitrust amnesty. The reason that Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple have market power like they do, why they have gatekeeping power over information and commerce, is because we gave them a deadly combination of Section 230 immunity and antitrust amnesty, starting under President Obama. So why the hell are Republicans going to do this again with AI amnesty? We’re going to give AI companies five years or ten years of amnesty so they can steal everyone’s creative content for their AI machines and make a lot of money. They can harm kids. Let me give you an example of what is coming out: these AI chats are telling kids that they should kill their family members and commit suicide. And kids are actually doing this. And these AI platforms-like Google and Meta-want to have amnesty so there’s no recourse for these family members whose kids kill themselves or kill other family members. There’s no recourse under this five-year or ten-year amnesty that Senate Republicans want to give to these $ 1 trillion big tech companies. There’s no recourse if these $ 1 trillion big tech companies want to steal content-for example, steal Steve Bannon’s content from the War Room every day-for their AI missions. They want to say that’s fair use under our copyright laws. They say that’s how we have to compete against China. We have to steal like China to compete against China. We have to have slave labor like China to compete against China. These are the big tech platforms-like Meta, for example-that spent $ 400 million chasing President Trump out of office in 2020, and subjected him to four years of unrelenting, republic-ending lawfare, where they tried to bankrupt him for no crime. They tried to throw him in prison for life-four times-for non-crimes. They tried to throw him off the ballot unconstitutionally. Trump’s opponents tried to take off his head when they underfunded his Secret Service and said to put a bull’s-eye on him, from Joe Biden, twice. They tried to kill him. And now we’re going to reward these big tech companies with amnesty so they can target creators, they can target kids, they can target conservatives with their censorship? Why the hell are we doing this? Have we not learned our lessons from the last 20 years?

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