Absolutely fantastic news: it seems that the GRANITE Act’s defensive provisions were adopted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, as an official model policy. I am advised that the vote to do so was unanimous.
GRANITE was first proposed on this blog 10 months ago.
GRANITE’s offensive provisions, the private right of action and damages language, were not included in the state GRANITE shields. We wait to see if Congress will propose the offensive provisions in any law reform proposals that may, in future, issue from that body.
Even before Congress moves on this issue, the fact that a model for a state GRANITE Act has been adopted as model policy by ALEC will turbocharge the process of state-by-state adoption of foreign censorship shields that protect American innovation.
We are going to win.
