The Digital Civil Liberties Act
Protect individual liberty online through transparency, privacy, due process, and accountability for major digital platforms and institutions.
Planks In This Act
Require covered digital platforms to provide notice, explanations, and meaningful appeals before taking significant actions that affect people's accounts, speech, employment, commercial activity, or access to important digital services.
Require public disclosure of significant government efforts to influence the moderation or visibility of lawful online speech.
Require covered digital platforms and covered data organizations to clearly disclose how personal information is collected, used, shared, retained, and protected through standardized Digital Data Transparency Reports.
Digital technology has transformed how Americans communicate, work, learn, conduct business, and participate in civic life. Decisions once made face-to-face are now made through digital platforms, online services, and data-driven systems that shape opportunities, reputation, and public discourse.
These institutions have become an essential part of modern society. With that influence comes a responsibility to exercise their power fairly, transparently, and with respect for individual liberty.
Americans should not lose meaningful opportunities because of hidden rules, undisclosed government influence, opaque data practices, or significant digital decisions that cannot be understood or challenged.
The rapid growth of digital platforms has outpaced the protections available to ordinary users.
Platform rules are often difficult to understand and may be applied without meaningful explanation or review. Government efforts to influence online content frequently occur outside public view. Personal information is collected, combined, and shared with limited transparency. Lawful digital expression can become the basis for significant adverse decisions without clear standards or meaningful procedural protections.
The result is a digital environment where important decisions are increasingly made without the transparency and accountability people expect in other areas of public life.
This act establishes a framework of digital civil liberties for major digital platforms and other covered organizations exercising significant influence over individuals.
It requires meaningful due process before significant digital actions, greater transparency regarding government influence, clearer disclosure of personal data collection and sharing, and procedural protections when lawful digital expression is used to make significant decisions.
Rather than regulating lawful speech or requiring particular moderation policies, this act establishes that organizations exercising significant digital power must do so transparently, according to published rules, and through procedures that are fair, understandable, and accountable.
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