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“The Senate should ask the FCC Chair and other relevant agency leaders to say they will not use licenses or regulations to silence people, companies, or groups for speech protected by the Constitution.”
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“Agencies should use common standards to record, label, secure, store, and send covered communications about expression and content policies to a central OSTP portal at least every 120 days, with exclusions for classified information, child sexual abuse material, and certain lawful enforcement or warrant-based contacts.”
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“The Senate should publicly condemn an FCC chair accused of threatening ABC and Disney over political commentary, and ask him to take back those comments and respect constitutional limits.”
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“The Federal Communications Commission should not be able to make communications companies match the political views of the president's administration.”
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“Federal officials should not pressure broadcasters, online platforms, or AI providers to change, remove, label, hide, limit, demonetize, deprioritize, or otherwise act against lawful First Amendment speech, while still allowing lawful investigations, valid warrants, and directions about the government's own accounts or official use.”
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“Federal workers sued personally over alleged illegal pressure on speech should usually be able to choose Justice Department defense and have the federal government pay money judgments, but should repay defense costs and lose government payment if a court finds they acted in a reckless or very wrongful way.”
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“Trump administration officials should be urged not to use federal regulations, licenses, investigations, or enforcement actions to punish or silence speech that criticizes President Trump or his policies.”
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“The FCC should not use its power over broadcast licenses or airwaves to censor shows or punish broadcasters for editorial choices protected by the First Amendment.”
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“Agency Inspectors General should check at least every two years whether agencies are properly finding, recording, and reporting covered communications about expression and content policies, then send audit summaries to OSTP and specified congressional committees.”
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“Courts should decide whether federal officials illegally pressured a company by looking at the full situation, including threats, tone, agency authority, disclaimers, useful facts, and whether the company changed course against its own policies; federal defendants should have to prove when an exception covers what they did.”
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“Broadcasters and journalists should be free from government pressure when deciding what political commentary, news, entertainment, or other programming to air.”
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“Government officials and agencies should not use licenses, regulations, or other official powers to punish, intimidate, or threaten media organizations because of the stories, coverage choices, or opinions they publish.”
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“The Senate should formally state that free speech and a free press are basic parts of American democracy and should remain protected by the First Amendment.”
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“The Senate should ask the President to publicly commit to protecting free speech in the way the Constitution requires.”
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“People harmed by illegal federal pressure over protected speech should be able to sue the responsible agency or official in federal court, seek payment for actual harm and legal costs, ask for court orders to stop unlawful conduct, and get limited early evidence when needed to answer a dismissal request.”
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“Broadcasters, online platforms, and AI providers should be able to file complaints about alleged federal pressure without retaliation, and OSTP should send complaints that meet basic validity rules to the right agency watchdog and specified congressional committees within 15 days.”
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“The Senate should formally state that people have a First Amendment right to criticize public officials, including the President, and to take part in strong public debate without government retaliation.”
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“The Senate should formally say it is wrong for President Trump or his administration to suggest that people can be punished, censored, or intimidated by the federal government for criticizing him.”
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