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Let users choose their own content filters

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 28, p. 849. Written by Brendan Carr.

Let users choose their own content filters

The document says “should”Who acts: FCC, CongressHow: legislationp. 849 in the PDF
What the document says

“One idea is to empower consumers to choose their own content filters and fact checkers, if any.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 849

The chapter notes that Section 230 itself codifies user control as an express policy goal and encourages platforms to provide tools empowering users to do their own content moderation. It also asks the agency to work with Congress on stronger protections against young children accessing social media despite age restrictions.

What the document actually says

“One idea is to empower consumers to choose their own content filters and fact checkers, if any.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 849
That sentence, in plain words

One idea is to let users pick their own filters. They could pick their own fact checkers too.

What this is about

Platforms decide what to hide or label. The book says users could choose instead. They would pick their own filters.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. No candidate concerns content filtering, user selected moderation tools or children's access to social media. The candidates returned here cover Agriculture Department delegations, a child soldiers determination, disparate impact liability, renewable fuel volumes and made in America advertising claims. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 849.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Let users choose their own content filters,” Project 2025, chapter 28, p. 849. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch28-consumer-content-controls/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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