Today, CDT joins Fight for the Future and Personal Democracy Media in their project to “get more Internet users to vote than ever before.”
The groups created a voter registration tool that also allows people to send reminders to their friends to register to vote. CDT supports this effort – unleashing the democratic potential of the Internet is core to our mission.
This year, Internet users showedwhathappens when they speak out against bad legislation. Going forward, the fight to keep the Internet open, innovative and free will require engaged Internet users who are willing to hold their elected representatives accountable. That’s why CDT is joining this effort and encouraging everyone who has a stake in the Internet to register and help spread the word about “Internet Voter Registration Day.”
On September 15, 2026, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an amicus brief along with the Wikimedia Foundation in Meta Platforms v. Bonta, challenging California’s SB 976.
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.
