Washington has a strange habit. It treats the companies that fly us all over the world as too dangerous to trust, and the companies that decide what we are allowed to say as too sophisticated to restrain. Airlines struggle to live under massive regulations and federal rules. Big Tech lives under a legal shield written for the dial-up era. If Silicon Valley can “self-police,” why can’t the airlines? The honest answer is that they can’t, and neither can the platforms that spent the last decade proving they would rather try to influence politics than protect free speech.

Electrical engineers almost always like machines that solve problems, even AI/SI using huge networks of data centers. Some of us welcome the coming wave of artificial intelligence and what President Trump now calls superintelligence. And America should build more distributed power plants, more grid lines, networks, and the associated computing capacity to win the race to be number 1. But that is not the same thing as handing the companies that will own those systems a blank check over our First Amendment rights.

Airlines are over-regulated in ways that drive up costs and slow needed innovation. Safety matters, but so does common sense. Pilots, mechanics, and engineers already live with checklists, inspections, and liability. The public does not want a........

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