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Amazon and Big Tech’s Chokehold on Democracy Panel
WHEN
: Wednesday, June 9, 2pm EST; 11 am PST
WHO
: Public Citizen (Jane Chung), Free Press (Sandy Fulton), Electronic Frontier Foundation (Hayley Tsukayama), ACLU-WA (Jennifer Lee)
WHAT
: Amazon is the second-largest individual corporate lobbying spender in the entire country. This panel...
Where to See the EFF Staff at RightsCon 2021
Our friends at Access Now are once again hosting RightsCon online next week, June 7-11th. This summit provides an opportunity for human rights experts, technologists, government representatives, and activists to discuss pressing human rights challenges and their potential solutions. This year we will have several EFF staff in...
RightsCon: Must-carry? The pros and cons of requiring online services to carry all user speech: litigation strategies and outcomes
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:The legal issue of whether online services must carry user speech is a complicated one, with free speech values on both sides, and different results...
RightsCon: As AR/VR becomes a reality, it needs a human rights framework
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies (VR/AR) are rapidly becoming more prevalent to a wider audience. This technology provides the promise to entertain and educate,...
RightsCon: “But we're on the same side!”: how tools to fight extremism can harm counterspeech
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:We will set the stage for this session by describing how colonialist concepts of “terrorist and violent extremist content,” and dis- and mis- information, are driving content moderation policies and impacting free speech....
RightsCon: Designing for language accessibility: making usable technologies for non-left to right languages
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:The internet was built from the ground up for ASCII characters, leaving billions of speakers of languages that do not use the Latin alphabet underserved....
RightsCon: Contemplating content moderation in Africa: disinformation and hate speech in focus
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This community lab is limited to 60 participants. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:While social media platforms have been applauded for being a place of self-expression, they are often inattentive to local contexts in many ethnically and linguistically...
RightsCon: What's past is prologue: safeguarding rights in international efforts to fight cybercrime
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. This strategy session is limited to 25 participants. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:Cybercrime is a pressing global concern and threatens people’s livelihoods. Unfortunately, some efforts by governments to fight cybercrime, including at the international levels, can fail...
RightsCon: Upload filters for copyright enforcement take over the world: connecting struggles in EU, US, and Latin America
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:The EU copyright directive risks making upload filters mandatory for large and small platforms to prevent copyright infringements by their users. Its adoption has led to large street protests over the risk that...
Deeplinks Blog by India McKinney | June 4, 2021
The Safe Connections Act Would Make It Easier to Escape Domestic Violence
We all know that, in the 21st century, it is difficult to lead a life without a cell phone. It is also difficult to change your number—the one all your friends, family, doctors, children’s schools, and so on—have for you. It’s especially difficult to do these things if you are...
RightsCon: Taking stock of the Oversight Board’s first year
Note: Registration for RightsCon 2021 is now closed. Join and learn more on the RightsCon Event page Panel Description:This panel will take stock of the work of the Oversight Board since the announcement of its first members in May 2020. Panelists will critically reflect on the development of the Board over...