Josh Hawley: “there you have it. There are the Big Tech talking points. The problem is that they are entirely false. I have the bill…”

“there you have it. There are the Big Tech talking points. The problem is that they are entirely false. I have the bill text in front of me--the bill text that, again, passed unanimously out of the Senate Judiciary Committee--that explicitly exempts encryption technology: page 184, lines 15 and following; page 185, lines 1 through 18. You can read it for yourself--explicitly exempts. That is not true at all. It is flatly false. I have been on this floor over and over and over again on this issue, and every time, we are told: Not today. Not this. A little more of that. Maybe if it were more bipartisan. This has unanimous support from the Judiciary Committee. Unanimous. Every Republican. Every Democrat. And we all know the truth here: that until victims can get into court and have the rights and dignity of every other American challenging any other company, this will not change. Congress created this problem. Congress created it by giving the most powerful companies in the world a sweetheart deal that they still have to this day. It is an easy choice: Are you with the corporations or are you with the American people? Are you with the big companies or are you with the child victims? That is the choice. I would just say to those who continue to support 230 with no exceptions, no exemptions, no reform, no recognition of the incredible danger it has unleashed for children, that they are on an island. This state of affairs cannot continue.…”