CDT Joins Coalition Letter Calling for Necessary Amendments to the Open App Markets Act
The Center for Democracy & Technology joined a coalition letter, together with TechFreedom, Free Press Action, LGBT Tech, and others, reiterating our call for amendments to the Open App Markets Act.
As we highlighted in February, in a previous coalition letter, OAMA’s provision prohibiting “self-preferencing in search” risks enabling spurious lawsuits by app developers who are unhappy with the content moderation actions an app store may have taken against their app. Such lawsuits could discourage app stores from removing, demoting, or labeling apps that disseminate abusive content and disinformation.
We appreciate that bill sponsors adopted part of our recommendations from the February 2022 letter. Today’s letter reiterates that further amendments are necessary to alleviate the risks to content moderation that OAMA poses in its current form, and urges the Senate not to move OAMA forward without these additional amendments.
Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
As courts and policymakers work through questions about chatbot liability, they should be wary of analogies that flatten meaningful technical differences. Copyright filtering and safety intervention share real challenges around ambiguity and evasion, but they diverge in what each control must assess, how each manifests over the course of a conversation, and how much can be verified from the outside.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
The brief explains that Section 230’s liability protections are essential to enable free expression online and they extend to the use of automated systems to engage to rank and order content as part of traditional publishing activities.
