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Republicans Are Walking Into a Trap on Section 230 Repeal
Among political conservatives, there is no hotter potato at the moment than the civil liability protections afforded by Section 230 to online operators. Unless Republicans learn to love it again and reject the censorship lawfare complex favored by Democrats, they risk dooming our tech leaders and everyone who uses their products to the sharks circling…
Mr. President, Leave Wind Projects Alone
Energy is getting very expensive for American households. NPR reported as recently as August that one in six families struggles to pay their utility bills, and energy costs nationwide are outpacing inflation by more than 100 percent. New Englanders aren’t crazy to suspect their electric bills increased this year, and winter has yet to even…
If you want fewer Internet outages, more data centers!
The US-east-1 outage of October 20th, 2025 explains why we need yet more data centers and energy capacity. Yesterday, Internet users in the US and abroad awoke to some kind of errors and issues when loading their favorite websites and services. A global outage! Hundreds of thousands of users flocked to real time monitoring websites…
RFK’s Tylenol-autism link bails out his class action lawsuit-industry friends
The federal health bureaucracy’s latest health advice deals with Tylenol, pregnancy, and a supposed link to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. It’s a controversial flag for the Trump administration to plant, but it’s on-brand for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who knows precisely what he’s doing. RFK Jr. is relying on select studies and questionable experts for…
The Aussie experiment with ‘online safety’ is going about as well as you would expect
The Australian eSafety Commissioner is using the Online Safety Act to force online platforms to take down certain videos, or else. The Anglosphere is in the midst of yet another drawn-out battle questioning the limits of freedom of speech, online safety, and the ability for online users to share information on their social media networks.…
The Shutdown’s 800-pound Gorilla: Healthcare is political because the federal government dominates it
Like a broken clock, a reboot of a superhero movie, or a rehabilitation of Charlie Sheen, Americans faced with yet another shutdown of the federal government. With funding that expired on September 30th at midnight, the usual partisan fights are evolving and devolving in Washington, D.C., breaking open the fissures of the cobbled-together mess of…
Lawyers call Bitcoin Core v30 CSAM concerns ‘overblown’
I was interviewed by Protos about the ongoing Bitcoin node debate between Core and Knots. Though I’m not a lawyer, I know enough about Section 230 and existing judicial precedent that Bitcoin noderunners aren’t liable for what’s on the blockchain: Bitcoin Policy Institute Fellow and Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director, Yaël Ossowski According to Ossowski,…
Ohio needs sensible regulations on kratom, not another war on a helpful drug
The state of Ohio is in a mini-panic about the kratom plant and its derivative alkaloids, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH). We should be cautious before we launch the next war on drugs, which would cause further harm to consumers and families. Driven by some fear-mongering headlines, industry lobbying, and even Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert…
RFK’s Tylenol Claims Are Expected To Fuel Wave of Lawsuits
I was interviewed by the New York Sun on the latest announcements by RFK Jr. surrounding Tylenol and acetaminophen, and how this will supercharge the lawsuit industry: The deputy director at the Consumer Choice Center, Yaël Ossowski, says a district judge threw out the case because the expert testimonies used by the plaintiffs were determined…
FOX 5: The EU vs US on Big Tech Regulation
Egle Markeviciute and Yael Ossowski of the Consumer Choice Center join FOX 5 DC Jim Lokay to break down the clash between European regulators and American tech companies.