Rode Hoed

Speech Police: who owns the internet? With David Kaye (UN Special Rapporteur)

Rode Hoed
09-07-2019

Who should decide whether content should be removed from platforms, or which users should be kicked off? Should the giant social media platforms police the content themselves, as is the norm in the U.S., or should governments and international organizations regulate the Internet, as many are demanding in Europe? How do we keep from helping authoritarian regimes to censor all criticisms of themselves? Especially for this event we prolonged the end of our season, and glady welcomed David Kaye to the Netherlands, United Nations’ Special Rapporteur.