My name is Zach Whiting, policy director and Senior Fellow for Better Tech for Tomorrow, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. I am testifying in support of SB 417. The Foundation is grateful for your leadership on keeping kids safe online. SB 417 is an important first step, and we are encouraged to see several other bills filed this session that we hope your committee will expeditiously take up.
The False Dichotomy – To Ban Or Not To Ban TikTok
Common sense tells us that when someone says, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” the inverse of that statement is not, “you will get sick and immediately die if you forget to pack an apple for lunch.” Yet TikTok parent company ByteDance thinks Americans are credulous enough to accept the premise that we...