FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The White House is engaging against a Florida bill that would establish limits on artificial intelligence including protections for minors, sources familiar with the matter tell The Daily Signal.  The White House has contacted Florida Speaker of the House Daniel Perez and his staff members about opposing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights, sources said.  So far, Perez has sent the bill through four committees in the House since its introduction early this year. Perez told reporters on Tuesday that he is skeptical states should pass legislation on an issue where the federal government has “first dibs.”  “I’ve been very clear that I think AI is an issue that should be dealt with by the federal government. I have massive concerns with the state’s ability to deal with anything in tech,” Perez said. The view mirrors that of the White House and Silicon Valley, who favor a uniform federal standard over local attempts to address the potential perils of AI. The White House has already been revealed to be exerting pressure in Utah to kill an AI child safety and transparency bill. “The speaker believes the states should not interfere with President Trump’s ability to lead on this important issue,” Amelia Angleton, Perez’s communications director, told The Daily Signal.   DeSantis’ AI Bill of Rights would affirm existing protections against AI porn, including explicit images featuring minors; prohibit Florida government offices from using Chinese-created AI tools; and provide parental controls on AI for minors.  In December, Perez asked committee leaders to consider the “potentially positive and negative impacts” of AI ahead of the 2026 legislative session. Perez opposed the AI Bill of Rights before hearing from the White House due to his belief that the federal government should lead the AI conversation, a source close to Florida House leadership told The Daily Signal. A White House official pointed to President Donald Trump’s Dec. 11 executive order, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” which ordered the attorney general to establish an AI litigation task force that would challenge state efforts to regulate AI. “The White House supports AI regulation that supports minors, as outlined in the Executive Order – ‘That framework should also ensure that children are protected, censorship is prevented, copyrights are respected, and communities are safeguarded,'” the official said in response to a request for comment from The Daily Signal. “Any reporting otherwise is fatally flawed,” the official said. “The Trump Administration is committed to protecting the dignity, privacy, and safety of children in the digital age,” the official continued. “In May 2025, President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, legislation championed by the First Lady to protect young Americans from deepfake exploitation online.” Keith Flaugh, CEO of Florida Citizens Alliance, which has lobbied the state legislature to protect children with the AI Bill of Rights, sees the Florida legislation as necessary and is concerned it will not move forward in the Florida House.  “AI, without regulation, will destroy the family unit when every child, either through the education system or just through getting a chat, has their own personal, godlike authority figure in their life, starting at age five or less,” Flaugh told The Daily Signal.  Utah AI Bill  Last week, the White House sent a letter pressuring a Utah lawmaker to kill his bill requiring tech companies to publish safety and child-protection plans, Axios first reported.  The letter, which was subsequently obtained by The Daily Signal, asserts, “We are categorically opposed to Utah HB 286 and view it as an unfixable bill that goes against the Administration’s AI Agenda.” White House “AI czar” David Sacks, a Silicon Valley investor close to technology companies, previously indicated that the administration would not to oppose existing AI laws that protect kids. “Preemption would not apply to generally applicable state laws,” he wrote on X. “So state laws requiring online platforms to protect children from online predators or sexually explicit material (CSAM) would remain in effect.” ONE RULEBOOK FOR AII wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns.First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction.When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B,… pic.twitter.com/tO3yyc0A8M— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 8, 2025 Now that the White House has opposed the AI laws in Florida and Utah, sources familiar with the matter fear it will interfere in Tennessee and Nebraska, where state legislatures are considering similar bills.  “This is clearly a warning to the rest of the country that the Trump administration is opposed to any legislation, political candidate, or governor, or state that is going to do anything that would make the AI companies unhappy,” said Michael Toscano, director of the Institute for Family Studies’ technology initiative. Why Oppose State AI Laws?  The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy opposes state AI laws because it believes they harm tech companies, an administration official told The Daily Signal. Some AI experts tell The Daily Signal they believe the Trump administration is challenging state AI laws to lower the bar for the national AI framework. Trump’s AI preemption order directed Sacks and Michael Kratsios, the assistant to the president for Science and Technology, to prepare a legislative recommendation establishing a uniform federal policy framework for AI.  If red states have serious protections against AI on the books, it sets a higher bar for the national framework. The White House appears to be trying to keep the bar for national AI regulation as low as possible, Toscano said.   The Utah law “has very simple transparency requirements, asking large frontier AI companies to just be clear about what its plans are for keeping the public safe and for children safe,” Toscano told The Daily Signal. “It strikes me that if that is a bar too high for the administration, what they’re trying to do is aim extremely low,” Toscano said. The Utah bill introduced by Republican state Rep. Doug Fiefia would require frontier AI companies to publish safety and child-protection plans and include whistleblower protections for employees who report safety concerns. “I don’t know how much lower you go than that, with a transparency requirement,” Toscano added. “It’s hard to actually imagine what lower looks like.” But Utah voters want AI companies held accountable for harms to the public and harms to kids, according to an Institute for Family Studies poll. Trump voters in Utah also said they are more likely to support candidates that protect kids and oppose preemption. “This is a culture war against Trump’s own base,” Toscano said. “I’ve never seen anything like this, the dynamic where the White House is doing everything in its power to stop red states from passing common sense laws to protect people is shocking to the conscience.”  The post SCOOP: White House Working Against Florida Attempt to Limit AI for Minors, Seeking Federal Solution appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A man who was being honored at an award show caused controversy by yelling "n*****" while two black actors were on stage.A movie about a man with Tourette's syndrome won multiple awards over the weekend at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, Britain's Oscars equivalent.'Tourette's makes you say that?'John Davidson, the inspiration for the film, was in the audience to see "I Swear" take home three trophies, but the event was not without controversy related to his affliction. Jarring outburstAs actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting the award for best visual effects — the first award of the night — Davidson was heard yelling the N-word, causing an abrupt pause in the show until Lindo decided to carry on with the presentation.According to the Mirror, Davidson was also heard shouting phrases like "shut the f**k up" and "boring" during the award show, and even said "f**k you" during the presentation for the best children's and family film.However, several Hollywood personalities took issue with Davidson's racial slur, with one even saying it was not an accident.RELATED: With Sundance gone, Utah bets on AI film festival as a force for 'social change' 'Infuriating' reactionAfter writer Jemele Hill asked if "Black people are just supposed to be ok with being disrespected and dehumanized so that other people don't feel bad," actor Wendell Pierce ("The Wire") added that he felt the reason behind the cursing did not matter."It's infuriating that the first reaction wasn't complete and full throatted [sic] apologies to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan," he wrote on X. "The insult to them takes priority. It doesn't matter the reasoning for the racist slur."Actor and singer Jamie Foxx took his statements one step further and claimed Davidson meant what he said."Nah he meant that s**t," Foxx wrote in response to the video on Instagram, the Guardian reported.Foxx made additional comments, including, "Out of all the words, you could've said Tourette's makes you say that?" Foxx added, followed by, "Unacceptable."RELATED: 'Looksmaxxing' king Clavicular: Charles Atlas for the TikTok era? Royal ruckusDavidson has been a well-known activist for his syndrome in the U.K. for decades since he appeared in a BBC documentary in 1989 called "John's Not Mad."He has previously admitted that he yelled, "F**k the Queen," when he met the late monarch. According to advocacy group Tourette Association of America, the phenomenon is known as coprolalia and affects a small percentage of those with Tourette's.The inability to control "obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks" comes from the "overwhelming urge" to twitch, shout, or swear."The particular manifestation of such language may have to do with the individual's stronger emotional content in certain parts of the brain" but is "not indicative of their personal convictions (such as in the context of racial slurs)."The BBC apologized for the remarks heard on air, with a spokesperson saying, "Some viewers may have heard strong and offensive language during the BAFTA Film Awards 2026. This arose from involuntary verbal tics associated with Tourette's syndrome, and was not intentional. We apologise for any offence caused by the language heard."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama both made recent statements pertaining to necessary limitations around immigration.At the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 14, the former Secretary of State said, “There is a legitimate reason to have a debate about things like migration. It went too far. It’s been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don’t torture and kill people.”In the same weekend, the former president shared a similar sentiment on the “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen" podcast: “We’re a nation of laws. We have borders, and we’ve got to figure out an immigration policy that is orderly and that is fair and is enforced in a sensible way that is compatible with our values. ... We’ve got to accommodate the reality that the majority of the American people think that there’s a difference between somebody who’s a U.S. citizen and somebody who’s not, and that they want an orderly immigration system.”While some perceived these statements as backtracking on their former rhetoric, BlazeTV host John Doyle says these big Democrat players haven’t backtracked — or even softened — their immigration stance at all.“What this rhetoric is, first of all, is a strategy,” he says. All this talk of secure borders and orderly systems, he argues, isn’t contrition or concession but rather calculated damage control after Democrats suffered politically from their mass migration policies.“When they’re making this kind of sentiment more publicly known, that is not because they’re actually thinking about renegotiating, going back to the drawing board, taking the whole thing back to formula, reworking their immigration policy. This is about securing gains. That’s all it is,” Doyle says.“This is about taking your chips and cashing out and saying, ‘Hey, we’re not crazy. We’re not running on that platform anymore. We just want it to be humane.”’He expresses concern that many Americans — specifically those who have been “propagandized into wanting to believe that the Democrats are the good guys” — will be duped by this false humility.“The answer from Republicans has to just be calling them out on this and doubling down and saying, like, ‘OK, put your money where your mouth is, then. Why are you impeding ICE? Why are you flirting with secession rhetoric, civil war rhetoric?”’ he declares.“There has been no meaningful opposition from the Democrat Party to mass immigration. They understand it is the best thing that could ever happen to them politically,” he adds, claiming that “anti-elite, anti-exceptionalism, egalitarianism, state-enforced equality” are ideologies they “have no intention of ever going back on.”When “big players” like Hillary Clinton and Obama “get into a microphone and say, ‘No, no, no, no — that stuff is extreme; we’re not that guy anymore. ... But it does have to be humane,”’ it’s a “weapon,” he says, to secure their past gains on immigration, calm anxious swing voters, pull moderates back into the Democrat fold, and set a trap for Republicans to ease up on enforcement.It’s “the perfect recipe,” Doyle says.To hear more of his commentary, watch the video above.Want more from John Doyle?To enjoy more of the truth about America and join the fight to restore a country that has been betrayed by its own leaders, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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