From Coast to Coast

Abstract

Abstract This final case study chapter explores the recent United States context. It shows how state-level policy entrepreneurs, bolstered by a rising and revisionist coalition of conservative anti-tech interest groups, were motivated by Trump’s deplatforming to try and shift the platform regulation status quo in the US. Again drawing on interviews and new policy documents obtained via FOIA, the chapter examines how these actors used state-level legislation as a way to bypass federal-level gridlock, and worked against significant institutional constraints and industry resistance to enshrine—if only temporarily—a contested platform regulation strategy into Texas and Florida law.