Letter to the Federal Election Commission on Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 2014-01
On January 15, 2015, CDT signed a joint letter with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 2014-01: Earmarking, Affiliation, Joint Fundraising, Disclosure, and Other Issues (McCutcheon). EFF and CDT argue the FEC should not modify its current approach for a number of reasons.
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.
