🚨🚨 LAWSUIT #25: NetChoice Sues Nebraska to Stop Digital Censorship Imports to the Cornhusker State LINCOLN, Neb.—Today, NetChoice sued Nebraska to stop the portions of LB 383 that force Nebraskans to surrender digital I.D.’s just to access lawful information and use everyday digital services like social media. This law creates significant cybersecurity risks and undermines parents’ authority online. LB 383 is set to go into effect on July 1, 2026. NetChoice is challenging Nebraska’s law to defend constitutional rights, digital safety, and meaningful solutions that protect families online. “Nebraska’s new Digital ID law makes a mockery of the First Amendment. The government cannot condition access to fully protected speech on a person’s willingness to hand over their most sensitive information. In fact, there is a large, growing body of law explaining exactly why this approach is unconstitutional,” said @Paul_Taske, Co-Director of the NetChoice Litigation Center. Taske continued: “Nebraska joined the fray on the wrong side. When a law goes against the Constitution, it is doomed from the start. Beyond its constitutional shortcomings, Nebraska’s law would actually make its citizens less safe. Digital ID laws, like those implemented in Europe, create honeypots of data that hackers and other bad actors will eagerly exploit for their own gain. Rather than continue down this unconstitutional, unsafe road, Nebraska should chart a new course with the Constitution as its compass.”

NetChoice Applauds Sens. Cruz and Wyden for Introducing the JAWBONE Act to Stop Government Censorship WASHINGTON—Today, Sens. Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduced the JAWBONE Act, a bipartisan effort to combat government coercion of online speech. NetChoice welcomes this critical legislation, which takes concrete steps to protect the First Amendment rights of online platforms, broadcasters, and artificial intelligence developers. "For years, the NetChoice doctrine has established that private platforms possess a clear First Amendment right to independent editorial discretion," said @ZacharyLeeLee, Director of Government Affairs. "The JAWBONE Act takes concrete, necessary steps to shield digital services from illegal government coercion and backchannel bullying." “This bill gives platforms and everyday Americans a real avenue to vindicate their constitutional rights in court when overreaching bureaucrats violate them,” continued Lilly. “This protection is especially critical in the era of AI, where consumers must be able to use AI services to access important information completely independent of state control. NetChoice applauds this bipartisan effort to safeguard free expression and free enterprise online." By providing a framework to distinguish between legitimate dialogue and unconstitutional coercion, the JAWBONE Act ensures that law enforcement can continue to work with platforms to protect consumers while empowering those same platforms and citizens when the government oversteps its bounds and violates the First Amendment. NetChoice applauds the JAWBONE Act and encourages the Senate to swiftly advance it. Please contact press@netchoice.org with inquiries.

Illinois’ sloppy new social media tax is NOT ready for prime time 👎🚫🙅‍♀️🚮

Editorial: So is Illinois’ social media tax going to take on Tinder? Nextdoor? Yelp? Yahoo? chicagotribune.com/2026/06/1…

The bill “simply” holds companies to different standards, codifies rules that the Trump administration has fought around the world, and enshrines an approach to markets that has materially contributed to Europe’s economic decline.

While tech companies compete to build a robust Digital Safety Shield that empowers parents, lawmakers keep pushing unworkable mandates like KOSA and ASAA. As NetChoice’s @ZacharyLeeLee explains, private innovation protects families far better and far faster than government overreach ever could. Read the full piece to see why Congress needs to trust parents, not digital censors ⤵️

🚨BREAKING: The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is back. AICOA punishes size, not anticompetitive conduct, putting America's most successful innovators at a disadvantage. Congress should reject government picking winners and losers. protectingtaxpayers.org/pres…

AICOA HAS LOST SUPPORT EVERY TIME IT’S BEEN INTRODUCED. 📉 Senators on the bill 2022: 14 2023: 8 2026: Just 6 The latest effort is the weakest yet. AICOA is a proven political loser because it raises prices and degrades the secure tech products Americans love.

Europe has a well-documented innovation problem. While it once led the world in industrial and scientific achievement, its digital economy has fallen further behind because its policies tax punish success rather than building it. America should NOT follow their failures.

If Washington pulls up a chair to the boardrooms of frontier AI labs, it won’t accelerate our progress; it will grind it to a screeching halt.

Once built, censorship infrastructure is hard to tear down — today’s European leaders may not always have the reins of power as populist movements surge in the polls. 🔗Read why European democracies need to change course before it’s too late: foreignaffairs.com/guest-pas…

Ending anonymity. Expanding speech bans. State-ordered takedowns. These are pillars of the Internet in China, Russia, and Iran. Increasingly, they have become features of European policy. In @ForeignAffairs, @JMchangama examines how Europe lost the plot on online speech.