Daniel Cochrane
@RealDCochrane
Tech policy @Heritage ll Formerly corporate engagement + free speech @ADFLegal ll Patrick Henry College alum ll views are my own
My latest in @FoxNews 👇 Congress' proposed moratorium on state AI laws isn't just an affront to Federalism, it threatens to disable the American Peoples' most reliable defense against Big Tech! (Link in comments)
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🚨 JPMorgan is slapping fintechs with massive new data fees—up to $300M a year for Plaid alone. This isn’t about “security.” It’s a blueprint to crush competition, kill open banking, and lock consumers into legacy systems. The future of finance shouldn’t be held hostage by some…
Black Mirror was only a few years ahead. We’re almost caught up to its timeline now.
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This is the worst thing I have heard from the already awful airline industry fortune.com/2025/07/16/del…
All of China’s apps are dangerous. All must be banned.
TikTok isn’t the only app weaponized by the CCP to steal your private information. Temu collects things like your text messages and has access to your phone’s microphone. @NEAttorneyGen Mike Hilgers is suing the company to get the CCP’s tentacles out of our pockets.
Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth has confirmed that they are now looking into the Microsoft engineers in China who have access to Dept of Defense systems This comes after Chinese hacker, Xu Zewei, was arrested for stealing US data on behalf of the CCP using Microsoft
The Chip Security Act: A Bipartisan Solution to Chip Smuggling New from me: thefai.org/posts/the-chip…
It’s time for states to take the fight to reclaim American education to the next level: eliminate the SAT and ACT and replace them with the Classic Learning Test! @KevinRobertsTX @ALEC_states @CLT_Exam
Pirating the largest amount of intellectual property in history isn't some aggressive business tactic; it's CRIMINAL conduct. But what did Meta employees have to say for it? They used emojis to laugh about it.
Elon & Vivek constantly say rightwing things, like "We need the birth rate to go up," while constantly doing leftwing things, like advocating for infinite H1B immigration, praising Silicon Valley, creating VR girlfriends, advocating for tech industry dominance of America, etc.
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It has come to my attention that the New York Times does not agree with what we are doing at the FCC. My official response:
.@SecDef: “We’re producing thousands of low-cost, American-made drones to equip our combat units — and we’ll train as we expect to fight.”
.@Apple’s failure to diversify its supply chain has allowed the CCP to make China into the global tech powerhouse it is today. Apple is no longer an American company. Thus, any assistance the US gives it only helps our greatest foreign adversary & puts us further away from a true…
Apple fundamentally misunderstood its transaction with China. As @Lingling_Wei writes, "They thought they were hiring a contractor. Beijing knew it was running an apprenticeship." In the process, Apple built the industrial capacity of America's chief foreign adversary.
🚨BREAKING: The Pentagon is becoming the largest shareholder in an American rare earth mining company. This is one of the biggest moves yet to decouple from China—and it's a Trump administration masterstroke. Here’s what just happened—and why it matters 🧵