Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don’t like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president’s desk.
So just assume they voted yes since only 2 republicans voted against including the Democrats
I’d like to know why those 2 Republicans voted “no” when every Democrat voted “yes”.
My guess is they never read any of it, but heard the Democrats were voting “yes” so they voted “no” purely for opposition.
There’s different factions in the republicans just like there are different factions in the democrats (though I’d argue that the democrats are somewhat more of a monolith and seem to really actively hate deviation from the party line). At a blind guess, I’d wager that Rand Paul voted no, since he’s one of the more libertarian leaning legislators. Though, I’d be unsurprised if he voted yes. For every good take, Rand has a dozen real stinkers, but much like a broken clock, he does get it right once in a while and isn’t afraid to break from the party on stuff.