RightsCon Tunis 2019: Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Onlin...

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Free Speech Or Hate Speech: Should Online Due Diligence Change?

New hate groups are appearing in rapid, successive fashion. When the public is outraged at you as a provider, how do you determine if a new group on your network is a hate group? How much research do you do as a provider to determine if they have violated your terms of service agreement - yet? This session will discuss difficult real and possible scenarios. We’ll show how Internet companies can set clear and open criteria around acceptable usage.

Moderators

Jay Sudowski (Handy Networks / i2Coalition)

CEO, Handy Networks LLC

Speakers

Mitchell Kilby

Milton Mueller

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Milton Mueller is the O.G. of I.G. He directs the Internet Governance Project, a center for research and engagement on global Internet governance. Mueller's books Will the Internet Fragment? (Polity, 2017), Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance (MIT Press... Read More →