The Show Me State of Missouri is now the first in the US to censor content moderation. Pushing the limits of free speech, and despite Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, Missouri under its Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, will no longer allow Big Tech to regulate screen content. Instead, it will allow users to pick who they want to moderate content, alleviating the need to be shown anything they don’t already think.
Really, what’s ten years give or take, holding off legislation to control AI? And, why would we want to? Trump’s trumpeted and, to many, alarming, “One Big Beautiful Bill” is now headed to the Senate. Bundled inside is language saying no state or local government may enforce regulatory control over AI for a decade. If AI isn’t able to laugh yet, this might push it over the edge.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Fairplay have written to CEO Sundar Picihai requesting Google immediately suspend rollout of its Gemini AI chatbot to young children. Concerns are the product can be very addictive and that it may violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Composable CDP Hightouch is introducing same-session personalization, providing the ability to combine warehouse data and real-time signals during real-time interactions. It requires caching audience data outside of the data warehouse, bending the company’s “no copy” rule. This blog post explains how they do it.