Tech critics’ least favorite law is under siege again, this time with a focus on its recommendation algorithms. On Wednesday Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make platforms responsible for preventing their recommendation systems from causing certain foreseeable harms. Section 230 is the law that shields online platforms — including social media sites, digital forums, blogs with comment sections, and their users — from being held liable for other people’s unlawful posts, or for engaging in good faith content moderation. But the Algorithm Accountability Act would require commercial social media platforms to “exercise reasonable care in the design, training, testing, deployment, operation, and maintenance of a recommendation-based algorithm” to “prevent bodily injury or death.” If a platform should have reasonably been able to predict its content recommendations would result in physical harm, Section 230 would no longer offer protection for surfacing those recommendations. Under the Algorithm Accountability Act, victims who suffered bodily harm, or their representatives, would be …