R Street Leads Coalition Opposing Online Content Policy Modernization Act
The following may be attributed to Charles Duan, senior fellow for technology and innovation policy at the R Street Institute:
“This hastily introduced bill would injure online speech, impede American innovation, expose children to online dangers and violate the Constitution. Enabling companies to engage in and innovate with content moderation has been essential to making the Internet a vibrant marketplace of ideas and enabling marginalized voices to be heard, all while protecting children and vulnerable communities from harmful content. This bill would stop those important efforts in their tracks by exposing online companies to potentially massive liability for their decisions to remove or modify content, and the public and the nation will be worse off for it.”
Signers on the letter include:
Access Now
ALEC Action
Center for Democracy and Technology
Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Copia Institute
Engine
Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law
Internet Association
NetChoice
New America’s Open Technology Institute
Organization for Transformative Works
Public Knowledge
R Street Institute
Wikimedia Foundation
Woodhull Freedom Foundation
(Read the full letter here.)
