PL 2: Information disorder: causes, risks and remedies.
- All human rights are impacted by the phenomena that we face on the Internet now, the so-called information disorder, which is much wider than just fake news. These are misinformation, mal information and disinformation.
- The cause why disinformation is created, promoted and amplified is an intention to cause harm to our democracies.
- In order to find effective remedy, we need to have in mind why disinformation is created in the first place. Even though many states are trying to use regulation as remedy, we need to avoid regulation that would undermine the very freedom of expression.
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Propaganda has to be differentiated from fake new, disinformation and similar phenomena, since it has different nature and requires different treatment.
- Civil society, it is known, is serving in the fundamental promotion of democratic values and in that process today they are commonly using social media for their work. It was presented that the use of social media for civic engagement has the potential to preventively counteract tendencies to radicalisation.
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31st July 2021 at 6:00 pm
There have been some comments about the messages on the WS-16 mailing list rather than being logged as part of the messages procedure. The final result was a list of messages agreed by consensus.
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11th July 2021 at 5:39 pm
I suggest to rephrase more concrete: There must be a global collaborative effort in the form of dialogic regulation between governments, tech companies, and civil society to develop a solution grounded in human rights that will address disinformation and harmful content
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11th July 2021 at 5:36 pm
delete “being”
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11th July 2021 at 5:34 pm
I suggest tp rephrase a bit more concrete: Liberal approaches of governments towards online platforms at there start of the platform economy led to …
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11th July 2021 at 5:24 pm
Although I was the one who mentioned this during the session, I am not sure that we should push for frequency regulation – besides, it is very likely to be be outside our scope
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11th July 2021 at 1:12 pm
NEW WORDING PROPOSED:
One institution ALONE CANNOT solve the problem. Multistakeholder approach IS needed, TO BUILD AN HARMONIOUS SYSTEM WHERE HARD AND SOFT REGULATION MECHANISMS FIND A BALANCE WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE BOUNDARIES, MANDATES AND ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS. IN PARTICULAR Platforms have a big stake, and should be required to develop transparent self/co-regulation.
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11th July 2021 at 1:09 pm
propose to add at the end of the phrase: “Those defenses should be strengthened by media education: a field where public service broadcasters have a special role to play based on their remits.
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11th July 2021 at 1:01 pm
This legitimacy needs to arise from clear legislative frameworks in which hard regulation and soft regulations could find an equilibrium, each one with its own specific role and with clear boundaries and accountability mechanisms.
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11th July 2021 at 12:57 pm
[that will address disinformation and harmful content]
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10th July 2021 at 9:16 pm
As I mentioned during the session, I believe we should be careful with using the term ‘content moderation’ in the context of the Internet infrastructure level, as these services are typically very far removed from the actual content. I would like to suggest amending this paragraph to read: “Recent cases show that certain infrastructure providers unwillingly take action that could be argued to be content moderation by suspending services for the platforms in an ad-hoc manner without any transparent policy. But infrastructure services have limited possible options, which tend to be temporary solutions (clearing cache), overbroad reactions (limiting access) or options that open up websites to cyberattack (terminating services of particular users).”
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