Amazon and Big Tech’s Chokehold on Democracy PanelWHEN: Wednesday, June 9, 2pm EST; 11 am PSTWHO: Public Citizen (Jane Chung), Free Press (Sandy Fulton), Electronic Frontier Foundation (Hayley Tsukayama), ACLU-WA (Jennifer Lee)WHAT: Amazon is the second-largest individual corporate lobbying spender in the entire country. This panel...

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:The legal issue of whether online services must carry user speech is a complicated one, with free speech values on both sides, and different results...

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:We will set the stage for this session by describing how colonialist concepts of “terrorist and violent extremist content,” and dis- and mis- information, are driving content moderation policies and impacting free speech....

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:While social media platforms have been applauded for being a place of self-expression, they are often inattentive to local contexts in many ethnically and linguistically...

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closedJoin and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:The EU copyright directive risks making upload filters mandatory for large and small platforms to prevent copyright infringements by their users. Its adoption has led to large street protests over the risk that...

Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed.Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event pagePanel Description:This panel will take stock of the work of the Oversight Board since the announcement of its first members in May 2020. Panelists will critically reflect on the development of the Board over...