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Republican Rep. French Hill will chair a new digital assets subcommittee, as lawmakers continue a push to regulate the crypto space after the collapse of FTX.

More than four years after its enactment, FOSTA remains an unconstitutional law that broadly censored the internet and harmed sex workers and others by chilling their ability to speak, organize, and access information online. And the fight to overturn FOSTA continues. Last week, two human rights...

Almost 104,000 acres spread across three designated wilderness study areas would be removed from protected status under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday by Montana Sen. Steve

When lawmakers focus on children’s online safety to get bills passed, they leave everyone else out. Now they’re trying again.

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Back in 2019, Reps. Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee along with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden introduced a bill to study the actual impact of FOSTA on sex workers. While that bill unfortunately went nowhere, the same group is now back and have reintroduced the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act (SSWSA). This is an…

Also: Sen. Ted Cruz is likely to be the next top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee. What'll that mean for tech?

A few months back, we were pleasantly surprised to see Rep. Ro Khanna announce plans to introduce a bill that would study the impact of...

We don’t entrust Internet companies to be arbiters of morality. We shouldn't hand them the responsibility of making broad cultural decisions about the forms sexuality is allowed to take online. And yet, this last year has been a steady and consistent drum of Internet companies doing just that....

GOP Rep. Malliotakis slams Dems over NYC’s rampant street prostitution: ‘Their idea of job creation?’ Dom Calicchio A Republican congresswoman slammed New York’s Democratic leadership Friday following a newspaper’s report about seemingly rampant street prostitution in the city’s Brooklyn borough. "New York Democrats claim to be champions for women," U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island, the city’s only GOP member of Congress, wrote on Twitter, "then create...