Issues
Our surveillance laws provide intelligence and law enforcement agencies with vast powers, but overbroad government surveillance is harmful to both civil liberties and business interests alike. Online services are premised on user trust, and that trust is undermined by loose rules for government access to user data.
Patents are a critical source of our economic vitality, but abusive patent litigation takes a tremendous toll on government and private sector resources. Instead of using their resources to create and innovate, startups and leading enterprises alike often find themselves mired in endless—and needless—litigation.
Our U.S. Constitution grants a limited monopoly to creators to give them an economic incentive to "promote the progress of science and useful arts." Our Founding Fathers recognized that society benefits from the free flow of ideas, information, and commerce.
The advent of the Internet has allowed people to be creators in their own right, leading to an explosion of creativity – including music, movies, text, images – by more people from more places than ever before in human history.
The right to free speech is the bedrock of a strong democracy. Modern communication technology has dramatically enhanced our First Amendment freedoms of expression and association by removing barriers to individuals' ability to access, create, and share information.
A free and open Internet is essential to America's economic and cultural prosperity. The Internet is a thriving and vibrant engine for cultural and economic growth because it lowers barriers and empowers people to connect and share information globally with limited restrictions.
Zoe does not believe broadband providers should selectively favor certain Internet traffic to the detriment of other lawful online services. However, any regulatory safeguard against discriminatory traffic prioritization should not interfere with legitimate network management.
The bedrock of American democracy is our right to vote in fair and open elections, which are followed by a peaceful transfer of power.
Zoe takes her oath of office seriously; she carries a copy of the U.S. Constitution wherever she goes, and she refers to its words regularly. She did so when she served as a House Manager in the 2020 impeachment trial of Donald Trump, when she became the first woman in U.S. history to present a presidential case to the Senate and the only Member of Congress to have participated in all modern impeachment proceedings.
