Here we go again.
After a resounding 99-1 defeat in the Senate earlier this year, the Big Tech oligarchs are hard at work doing what they do best: trying to sneak a massive corporate giveaway into legislation that needs to be passed in the dead of night. This time they are targeting the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill essential to our military and national security, as the vehicle for a decade-long AI amnesty. Or some other bill to pass, if the NDAA doesn’t work for them. Or even a legally questionable executive order, like their Hail Mary.
They tried this in July. And now, led again by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., they want to push through a federal takeover of AI without any meaningful rules or even guardrails. They call it “federal preemption.” But let’s be blunt: Federal preemption without federal rules is not governance. It’s amnesty. Total, blanket corporate amnesty for trillion-dollar Big Tech monopolies that have spent decades crushing competition, shutting down small businesses, defunding conservatives, and harming children.
President Trump has made AI dominance a central part of his agenda during his second administration. (Getty Images)
If their idea is so great, why are they terrified of public debate? Why are they running away from votes? Why do they only try to pass this on in the middle of the night through 9,000 page bills?
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Because they know the truth: if the American people ever saw what was really in these proposals, the answer would be the same as last time: hell. No.
Big Tech already showed us exactly what it does with immunity. Section 230 created a legal shield for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. These trillion-dollar monopolists used their government-granted amnesty to censor conservatives, rig elections, destroy competition, and turn the Internet into a surveillance empire. Now they want the same deal for AI. But bigger. And more dangerous.
This ‘AI amnesty’ prevents states from protecting their own citizens. No state regulations. No local security. And absolutely no federal guardrails. A total vacuum and the perfect playground for tech oligarchs who want to scrap every work of American creativity, censor every voice they don’t like, experiment on children’s developing minds with unsafe AI tools, and plant data centers wherever they want while working-class families pay the utility bills.
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Big Tech insists this is necessary to “compete with China.” That’s nonsense. These companies have been doing the Chinese bidding for years. Google killed the US Project Maven, our drone AI program, because its woke employees protested against helping the US military. At the same time, Google was running Project Dragonfly, a censorship system built for the Chinese Communist Party. They did not want to help our troops, but they were happy to help the CCP censor its own citizens.
Senator Ted Cruz said it would be a mistake for the FCC to step up action against television stations. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
And now these same companies claim they are our last defense against China? Please.
Their real concern is not China. It’s a win. They want carte blanche to steal every copyright in America, train their machines on it, and make money from it, all without paying a dime to the creators whose work built this country’s entertainment, journalism, and cultural industries. They want to replace America’s creative economy with a copy-paste machine. And they want Congress to bless it.
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The American people deserve better, and President Trump consistently shows the leadership needed to stop this scam. When Big Tech and its lobbyists pressured him to accept AI amnesty earlier this year, he stood firm. He refused to sell out the American people to Silicon Valley. And that courage helped kill the deal 99-1.
The American people understand what is at stake. We know that Big Tech cannot be trusted, not with our data, not with our elections, and certainly not with artificial intelligence. We know that we cannot “steal like China to compete against China,” nor can we become digital sharecroppers domestically just to boost corporate profits.
If Congress wants to discuss federal preemption, fine. But it must be done through a regular order. Public hearings. Public debate. Vote up or down. And only after legislation is in place that protects the people Big Tech has been targeting for years: conservatives, children, creators and communities. The 4 Cs must be protected in any AI deal.
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Conservatives must finally have protection from the censorship that these monopolists have weaponized for decades. We must protect children from predatory AI systems, including chatbots that have advised depressed minors to commit suicide – and their parents. Or AI teddy bears – Pedo Bears – that speak to children in sexually explicit terms. Creators deserve protection from the copyright theft that Big Tech openly admits it needs to train its models. And we must protect our communities from data centers that raise energy costs, deplete water supplies, and bulldoze residential areas so Silicon Valley can build another server farm.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
These are not radical demands. These are basic, common-sense protections in a free society. But Big Tech insists that any safeguards, regardless, will “slow innovation,” “damage national security,” “harm competitiveness” or even “help China.” Those talking points are as unfair as they are insulting.
Big Tech executives think they can bribe Congress, hide behind false national security arguments and get America to agree to their terms. Last time they thought they could get away with it. They were wrong. With President Trump’s leadership, with grassroots conservatives mobilized, and with the sunlight of exposure, we defeated them. And we will beat them again.
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But only if Congress hears loud and clear: no AI amnesty. Not in the NDAA. Not in any other ‘must-pass’ legislation. Not in an executive order. Never.
The Big Tech oligarchs spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 2020 to drive Trump from office. They have censored, silenced, de-platformed and canceled Trump, his aides and his allies. If we give these Big Tech oligarchs AI amnesty, it’s only so they can continue censoring conservatives, preying on children, driving up electricity and water bills in communities, and ripping off creators.
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If the tech oligarchs want a debate, they can enter the arena. They can defend their ideas in the open. They can hold accountable the children who have been harmed, the conservatives who have been censored, the creators who have been robbed, and the communities who have been exploited. They can no longer hide behind lobbyists and must submit bills and argue their case like everyone else.
Until then, Congress should reject any attempt to subsume this corporate giveaway into the NDAA, any other mandatory legislation, or an executive order. No shortcuts. No backroom tricks. No surrender to the Silicon Valley oligarchy.
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The stakes are too high. The consequences are too great. And the American people are watching.
No to AI amnesty. Protect our children. Protect our creators. Protect our communities. Protect our country.
