... this creates a fascinating contradiction: Republican state legislators are pushing for more control over tech companies, while Republican federal legislators are accidentally making that control impossible. It’s almost as if they don’t actually have a coherent technology policy beyond “do whatever seems politically expedient at the moment.”
Emphasis mine. The author is so close to getting it.
Again, likely to be one of those half-baked plans to remove regulation for their benefactors but they lack both the intelligence and understanding of the subject matter to realise what the full implications are.