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The house bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8160 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8160 The related senate bi
by joshka 4y ago
The house bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8160 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8160
The related senate bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/440...
The most interesting bit on the record is the introduction of the senate bill.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-168/issue-102/senate-section/article/S2969-1 https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-168/iss... (pdf version at https://www.congress.gov/117/crec/2022/06/15/168/102/CREC-2022-06-15-pt1-PgS2969.pdf https://www.congress.gov/117/crec/2022/06/15/168/102/CREC-20...)
My favorite part:
I do not believe that Big Tech should be deciding what information
individuals receive. Americans are free to opt out of whatever email
communications they wish, including political communications, but Big
Tech should not be making that decision for them. My Political BIAS
Emails Act would prohibit email services from using filtering
algorithms on emails sent from political campaigns where the candidate
is running from Federal office.
But nowhere is the ability to opt out specifically codified. I'd love to see that penalized or even criminalized, but doubt that those who would be impacted by the cost of that would choose to bear it.
Instead they choose to shift the burden to the ~45,000+ businesses that have >500 people. If this costs $1000 per company, then this is a $45 million dollar burden on the American people.
For a party that seems to be clear on being strong on limited regulation of business activities, this seems very much like a regulation that would be burdensome on many.