"It's been asserted that this circumvents consumer protection laws — to anyone who thinks that I would say RTFB: read the freaking bill," Mr. Obernolte said. "Because we specifically put language in there that says that as long as your law does not specifically target AI you can continue [and] enforce it, which includes all of the state consumer protection laws."
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“The deployment of DeepSeek provides the [Chinese Communist Party] with a backdoor to this sensitive information,” Mr. Obernolte said during a committee hearing.
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