ICLE on California’s AADC

An ICLE amicus brief supporting NetChoice in its challenge of California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code was cited in a blog post at Freedom to Tinker. You can read the full piece here.

The International Center for Law & Economics, supporting NetChoice, argues that the AADC would create an untenable situation for platforms, forcing them to either water down content moderation policies to avoid liability or implement overly aggressive enforcement of existing standards. They contend that data collection and content curation are “inextricably intertwined,” arguing that restricting data collection inevitably impacts content delivery. Their position suggests that without data-driven content tailoring, platforms would need to switch to subscription models or exclude minors entirely, fundamentally altering their current business models and reducing the speech available online.