How Should the Law Deal with Misogyny Online? | Sexism and the Online Publics | Session 3
Channel: IT for Change
Date: 2021-02-24

The third and final part of Sexism and the Online Publics, a webinar series on misogynistic hate speech online, reflects on how laws can be the normative basis of content regulation against misogyny. 


Monopolistic private power should not be the arbiter of the limits of free speech; instead this should be done through public means by institutions that are accountable to the people. This session will discuss what such accountability may look like in relation to social media, with reflections on how laws can make for a normative basis of content regulation against misogyny. It will also explore the possibilities of transparency and justice merited through communication decency laws for platforms to behave responsibly towards an affected user base (such as emerging evidence from the German NetzDG law demonstrates).

Speakers: Arti Raghavan, Mariya Salim, Vaishali Bhagwat, Vrinda Bhandari
Chair: Hon'ble Justice Rajiv Shakdher, Delhi High Court
Moderator: Sh. Vishal Gogne, Addl. Sessions Judge, Delhi


Details: https://itforchange.net/sexism-online-publics-it-for-change-edelgive-idrc-webinar


Part one of Sexism and the Online Publics: https://youtu.be/dfANUT2spPI


Part two of Sexism and the Online Publics: https://youtu.be/0XHiX0hNl5Y


IT for Change's commissioned compendium of papers "Rethinking Legal-Institutional Approaches to Sexist Hate Speech in India": https://itforchange.net/rethinking-legal-institutional-approaches-to-sexist-hate-speech-india