SEC. 141. Preventing censorship and protecting free speech.
Prevent censorship and protect free speech in the context of artificial intelligence.
Occurrences
Evidence
The draft’s table of contents adds a "Subtitle E—Free Speech" and "Sec. 141. Preventing Censorship and Protecting Free Speech." The section directs a Commerce Department study of federal interactions with AI platforms over content moderation or limiting expression, and asks for legislation that would give people redress against unlawful government censorship.
Assessments
Obernolte took a concrete in-office step toward the promise by releasing a 2026 discussion draft of the Great American AI Act that explicitly included a free-speech section aimed at preventing censorship in AI-related content moderation. But the evidence shows only a discussion draft and proposed study/redress framework, not an enacted law or implemented policy that actually delivered the promised protection. Under federal candidate-credit standards, that supports partial credit in the same term rather than full delivery.