Blog Freedom of Expression Stop Trump’s pro-censorship FCC nominee Action Alert: Trump is trying to appoint one of the worst, most dangerous FCC commissioners the United States has ever seen to gut protections for free speech online, and Mitch McConnell is speeding the Senate toward his confirmation. … 12 November 2020
Access Now in the News The FCC is examining whether to roll back Section 230 laws that protect social media firms, drawing fire for being Trump’s ‘puppet’ Isobel Asher Hamilton, Business Insider 16 October 2020
Press Releases Content Governance Democracy in demise: Trump Administration puppet Ajit Pai says FCC will interpret Section 230 Access Now strongly condemns the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s decision to interpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.… 15 October 2020
Press Releases Content Governance Civil society to U.S. Congress: don’t let disinformation run rampant Access Now and public interest partners oppose the Online Content Policy Modernization Act, legislation that would hamper platforms’ ability to combat disinformation and hate speech.… 30 September 2020
Blog Content Governance Unpacking the PACT Act The PACT Act is the most reasonable approach we’ve seen to date to reform Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act. While not the silver bullet solution, the bill has the potential to move us in the right direction on liability reform.… 21 September 2020
Press Releases Freedom of Expression Amend Section 230? Not Trump’s call Access Now submitted comments to the U.S. FCC condemning President Trump’s petition that asks the agency to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. … 2 September 2020
Press Releases Privacy Access Now publishes U.S. digital rights agenda Access Now releases its digital rights policy recommendations for the incoming U.S. president. … 18 August 2020
Access Now in the News Business and Human Rights Senators chart moderate new path on Section 230 reform Brendan Bordelon, National Journal 29 July 2020
Press Releases Freedom of Expression Twitter corrects Trump’s inaccurate ballot tweet, so he retaliates with legally nonsensical executive order Access Now lambasts President Trump’s executive order to undermine Section 230 and defends Twitter’s decision to fact-check the president’s erroneous tweet.… 28 May 2020
Press Releases Digital Security The EARN IT Act would undermine security and harm millions of innocent Americans Access Now joined 24 organizations opposing the EARN IT Act, which threatens free speech, security, and privacy.… 9 March 2020
Blog Privacy 2020 is an important year for digital rights in the U.S. Here’s our agenda. Here are the opportunities for promoting and protecting digital rights that the U.S. policy team will focus on in the year ahead.… 4 February 2020
