CDT CEO Alexandra Reeve Givens Speaks on Panel at Knight Foundation’s 2024 Informed Conference
CDT CEO Alexandra Reeve Givens spoke on a panel at the 2nd annual Informed Conference, hosted by the Knight Foundation. She joined Chris Marchese, Netchoice’s Litigation Center Director, for a discussion titled, “Tech Policy in the Laboratories of Democracy: Trends in State and Local Regulation.”
In attendance were leading thinkers on the online information environment including policymakers, researchers, public interest advocates, journalists, & technologists all focusing on how people access information & find community in the digital age.
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.
