Will Republicans ruin the internet?

Please don't

The GOP symbol.
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The internet is undoubtedly the most important invention of the last several decades. And no country has been better at commercializing the internet than America. Apple is unlikely to be the last trillion-dollar U.S. tech company.

It sure would be a shame to mess all that up over a loopy provocateur like Alex Jones.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.