In November 2018, the Special Rapporteur held a two-day workshop in Berlin to discuss how approaches to commercial content moderation should meaningfully integrate local engagement and input in addressing difficult areas of content, such as hate speech and threats of
Comments on New Australian Law on Online “Abhorrent Violent Material”
Australia has adopted a law that would penalize platforms and their executives for a failure to control what it calls “abhorrent violent material.” The law is deeply problematic, as was the extraordinarily compressed timeframe for its adoption (basically two days).
AI and Human Rights at the Council of Europe
Last week the Council of Europe held an exceptionally strong conference in Helsinki: Governing the Game Changer – Impacts of artificial intelligence development on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. From start to finish, the Council put together
Reflections on freedom of expression in Malaysia
I am pleased to share a blog post written by Nina Benjamin and Courtney Thompson, who are currently law students at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. They support the UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate through their work with the International Justice Clinic