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

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon 2019, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age.

Together at RightsCon Tunis, our first summit hosted in the Middle East and North Africa, more than 2500 expert practitioners will come together across over 400 sessions to shape, contribute to, and drive forward the global agenda for the future of our human rights.

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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, School of Public Policy

Milton Mueller is an internationally prominent scholar specializing in the political economy of information and communication. The author of seven books and scores of journal articles, his work informs not only public policy but also science and technology studies, law, economics... Read More →