ITI: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Preserve Foundational Tools for Innovation, Free Expression
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI issued the following statement from its President and CEO Jason Oxman in reaction to the Supreme Court of the United States decisions in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh:
“Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions preserve long-standing legal protections for the use of online algorithmic processing systems and protect future innovations like AI that will bring enormous societal benefits. In our brief on behalf of the technology industry, ITI urged the Court to recognize that algorithmic tools organize the massive quantities of content on the internet and throughout the digital economy. We are pleased that the Court reached a unanimous decision not to impose liability for use of algorithms, as a contrary result would have caused disruption and harm to the U.S. economy, innovation, and free expression.”
In January 2023, ITI and a coalition of tech organizations filed an amicus curiae brief in the Gonzalez v. Google case (opens in a new tab) calling on the Supreme Court to recognize that the use of algorithms to organize third-party content should remain protected under Section 230.