Panel: Regulating Platform Companies (SFLC Fall 2019)
Channel: Software Freedom Law Center
Date: 2019-11-08

Regulating Platform Companies: If It’s Inevitable, What Can the FOSS Experience Teach?

Pressure to regulate presently-existing social media is growing in all the developed societies. Democracies will soon be debating the various possible forms of regulation in the US, Europe and India, to name only the largest. Competition law, human rights law, free speech and expression law, and other institutions of public law will be invoked on all sides. We consider both the claims of these legal domains to address issues of social media misuse, misinformation, and privacy destruction. We also ask, does FOSS (which enabled the creation of centralized social media) also contain possible modes of remediation?

Panelists:
-Dinah PoKempner (General Counsel of Human Rights Watch)
-Jim Wright (Chief Architect for Open Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance & Alliances at Oracle)
-Gene Kimmelman (Senior Advisor for Public Knowledge)
-Eben Moglen – Moderator (President and Executive Director of SFLC)

This recording comes from SFLC's 15th Anniversary Fall Conference. This conference was held on November 1, 2019 at Columbia Law School. Please find the conference program here: https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2019/annual-conference/

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