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The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s NetChoice ruling
The new decision may affect kids online safety bills at the state and federal levels.
And it should be inevitably assumed then that those algorithms are protected by the First Amendment,” said Jess Miers, who spoke to The Verge before departing her role as senior counsel at center-left tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, which receives funding from companies like Google and Meta. Supporters of these kinds of bills may point to language in some of the concurring opinions (namely ones written by Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito) positing scenarios where certain AI-driven decisions do not reflect the preferences of the people who made the services. Vera Eidelman, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, noted that the justices pointed to competition regulation — also known as antitrust law — as a possible way to protect access to information.
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