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Utah official at AI summit touts Digital Choice Act and litigation against major platforms
Summary
At the same Utah event, the moderator described Utah’s recent policy moves: a law giving users control over social media data (Utah Digital Choice Act), pending lawsuits against Meta, Snap and TikTok, and an enforcement date of July 1 for the interoperability rule.
During a panel at a Utah AI summit, the moderator outlined recent state policy steps aimed at giving users greater control over social media data and increasing accountability for platform practices.
"We passed the Utah Digital Choice Act," the moderator said, describing the law as giving users the ability to download and control the data they put into social platforms and requiring interoperability so users can take friends and followers to other services. The moderator said the state has also passed social‑media regulation aimed at minors and is pursuing litigation against Meta, Snap and TikTok.
The moderator stated the interoperability provisions "go into effect July 1," and said the measures are intended to increase competition in the social media space by reducing the network‑effect lock that benefits large platforms.
Joseph Gordon‑Levitt, speaking onstage, endorsed stronger rules and said that giving creators and users rights over data is important to sustaining creative and technical economies. He argued that models built from collective human work should share economic upside with the people whose content generates model value.
Taken together, the moderator framed Utah’s approach as combining legal and cultural pressure to influence platform behavior and encourage more competitive, user‑centric markets.
