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Technology and Communications

What this site holds on technology and communications, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

In plain English

This page is about technology and communications.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

15
proposals
4
actions recorded
20
executive orders
9
other documents
7
agency rules
2
public laws
0
measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 21 (Department of Commerce) and chapter 28 (Federal Communications Commission). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Closely matches

Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8237

In plain English

This order canceled a long list of orders from the last president. One of them set up the gender council.

  • Withdraw the conservation order setting a 30 percent target: closely matches. EO 14148 of January 20, 2025 revokes EO 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad) outright. That is the order that set the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of United States lands and waters by 2030 and directed the report that became the America the Beautiful initiative, so the instrument the chapter asks to be withdrawn is withdrawn. Where the fit breaks down: the revocation is one entry in a list of 78 revoked actions and names neither the 30 percent goal nor the initiative, and it does nothing about designations, grants or agency plans made while the order stood. EO 14313, a candidate here, later sets up a separate conservation commission rather than restoring or replacing the goal.
Same subject, different route

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes

May 19, 2025 · 139 Stat. 55

In plain English

Some intimate images get shared without consent. A website must take them down when asked.

  • Require large platforms to publish clear terms and an appeals process: same subject, different route. Public Law 119-12, approved May 19, 2025, does impose a disclosed process on covered platforms: within one year each must build a way for a person to report a nonconsensual intimate visual depiction and request its removal, must carry a clear and conspicuous notice of that process in plain language explaining its responsibilities and how to submit a request, and must act within 48 hours, with the Federal Trade Commission enforcing failures as an unfair or deceptive practice. It runs the opposite way from what the proposal asks. The process is for requesting a takedown, not for appealing one; the poster whose material is removed gets no appeal; the law shields a platform from liability for a good faith removal that later proves unfounded; and it requires nothing about the specificity of a platform's terms of service or accountability for departing from them.
Partly matches

Restoring Gold Standard Science

May 23, 2025 · 90 FR 22601

In plain English

This order sets rules for how agencies use science. It says findings must be open to review.

  • Present climate data without adjustments favoring either side: partly matches. EO 14303 of May 23, 2025 sets rules for how agencies use, interpret and communicate scientific data. Agency heads must publish the data, analyses, conclusions and models, including source code, behind information that will have a substantial effect on public policy or private decisions; employees must document uncertainty and how it propagates through models; and employees must be transparent about the likelihood of the assumptions and scenarios used, with highly unlikely or overly precautionary scenarios relied on only where the law requires it. The order's statement of reasons names agency use of the RCP 8.5 climate scenario as an example of a worst case presented as likely. Where the fit breaks down: this is a government wide scientific integrity order run through the Office of Science and Technology Policy, not a Commerce Department policy about its own records. It says nothing about the National Hurricane Center or the environmental satellite data centers, does not address adjustments made to collected data, and does not touch the continuity of long climate series that the chapter raises.
Runs the other way

Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes

January 23, 2026 · 140 Stat. 5

In plain English

This is a spending law. It funds several agencies through September 2026.

  • Commercialize National Weather Service forecasting: runs the other way. Section 114 of the Commerce title of this appropriations act, approved January 23, 2026, provides that the National Weather Service shall maintain staffing levels in order to fulfill the mission required under 15 U.S.C. 313 to protect life and property to the maximum extent possible. That is a statutory direction to keep the service staffed for its own mission, which runs the other way from a proposal to move its forecasting operations to private companies and leave it gathering data. The fit breaks down because the section speaks only to staffing and names no number and no baseline, because it says nothing about who produces forecasts and does not bar the service from relying on or contracting with private forecasters, because 15 U.S.C. 313 is a separate statute that is not indexed here so what that mission covers is not recorded, and because the same sentence appears in the Act for several other agencies, which makes it a general staffing provision rather than an answer aimed at this proposal.

Executive orders

Orders whose title carries one of this subject's words. The word is printed beside each one.

Proclamations, memoranda and the rest

Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.

Agency rules

Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.

Public laws

Public laws of this Congress whose short title carries one of these words.

Roll call votes

Measures the House or Senate took a final vote on, kept in the grouping the site already publishes at how votes are grouped, which covers final-passage questions only.

That grouping does not carry this subject, so no vote is listed here.

About This Page

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