UK Parents, Children, and Teens Deserve Real Solutions
Social Media Ban Is the Wrong Tool to Protect Kids Online LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Reacting to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK Government will work to enact a ban on social media access for children and teens under 16-years old, Stephen Tulip, UK Country Manager for the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) said: ‘The UK should avoid creating a regulatory framework that only the largest technology companies can afford to navigate. Measures that require extensive collection [...]
Fifth Circuit Lays an Egg on Age Verification
At the end of last year, app developers and parents notched an important win when a federal district court in Texas issued an injunction against enforcement of the problematic App Store Accountability Act (ASAA). Then, Texas’s attorney general appealed the injunction. Just last week, three judges for the Fifth Circuit (the Court) issued a decision to stay the injunction pending review of the appeal. As part of the decision, the judges forecasted that Texas is likely to prevail and [...]
Broad Coalition Voices Opposition to the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The Honorable Chuck Grassley Chairman Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate The Honorable Dick Durbin Ranking Member Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate RE: Opposition to the American Innovation and Choice Online Act Dear Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Durbin: We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, write to urge Congress to reject the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). The bill would impose heavy restrictions on the ability of America’s leading digital platforms to engage in [...]
Coalition Urges Congress to Reject AICOA
WASHINGTON, DC – In a joint letter led by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), a coalition of more than 30 organizations and individuals is urging Congress to reject the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), warning that the bill would impose unnecessary limitations on America’s leading digital platforms’ ability to engage in common platform practices—threatening consumers, businesses of all sizes, and U.S. technology leadership. AICOA would target a small [...]
Developers Celebrate in the Sun at Google I/O as DMA Storm Clouds Gather
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Mountain View for my first ever in-person Google I/O experience. The presentations included live demonstrations and concrete examples illustrating how updates across a wide range of Google services will meaningfully benefit small businesses and consumers. The event was more than just glitz and glam, showcasing a lot of substance and garnering solid reviews from experts. But for tech policy nerds like me, it was hard not to wonder how the EU’s Digital [...]
Joint Statement on the Open Internet and IP Interconnection in the Digital Networks Act
Following the publication of the European Commission’s proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA)1, the under-signed organizations and civil society groups would like to express their concerns regarding the effects of this proposal on net neutrality. We regret that the concerns raised by a broad coalition of stakeholders during the preparatory phase of this initiative now seem to have materialized in the legislative proposal2, as the DNA seeks to review the Open Internet Regulation, incompletely integrating EU net neutrality [...]