Ron DeSantis on States should retain the right to set s…

Ron DeSantis

Governor of Florida

Stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI is a subsidy to Big Tech and will prevent states from protecting against online censorship of political speech, predatory applications that target children, violations of intellectual property rights and data center intrusions on power/water resources. [...] The rise of AI is the most significant economic and cultural shift occurring at the moment; denying the people the ability to channel these technologies in a productive way via self-government constitutes federal government overreach and lets technology companies run wild.

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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government

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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes federal preemption of state AI regulation, calling it "stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI" and "federal government overreach." That directly implies support for states retaining authority to impose their own, potentially stricter, AI safety rules than the federal government. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote clearly argues that states should keep authority to regulate AI: it says "stripping states of jurisdiction to regulate AI" is harmful and calls denying that ability "federal government overreach." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified ai_verified: Multiple reliable outlets independently reproduce and attribute these lines to Ron DeSantis’s November 18, 2025 X post. StateScoop prints the two sentences together and notes they were shared by DeSantis on X; Fast Company quotes the first sentence; TechCrunch and The Information quote the second; and The Lion embeds a RonDeSantis post from that date pointing to the same status URL. Minor note: the original wording appears to run sentence 1 directly into sentence 2 and then add "Not acceptable," so the user’s "[...]" is unnecessary but not materially misleading. ([statescoop.com](https://statescoop.com/gop-lawmakers-state-ai-law-moratorium/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

Go after criminals — great, let’s all do that. But surveilling just regular Floridians’ movements, and how that data’s used, that’s a bird of a different feather.

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