BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230321T0650Z-1679381439.4613-EO-516379-1@10.73.2.246 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T153132Z CREATED:20230321T000330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T000330Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230406T133000 SUMMARY: Advancing Platform Research through the EU Digital Services Act Ad vancing Platform Research through the EU Digital Services Act DESCRIPTION: The Digital Services Act (DSA) presents the most ambitious hor izontal regulation of online platforms to date. It is likely to set global standards for platform regulation due to the EU’s market size and the corre sponding Brussels Effect. In the area of platform research\, it will have a global effect as soon as it becomes applicable […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Digital Services Act (DSA) presents th e most ambitious horizontal regulation of online platforms to date. It is l ikely to set global standards for platform regulation due to the EU’s marke t size and the corresponding Brussels Effect. In the area of platform resea rch\, it will have a global effect as soon as it becomes applicable in earl y 2024\, by placing far-reaching transparency obligations on online platfor ms. In its conception\, the European legislators have placed great faith in a vibrant civil society and academic community to contribute to a healthy platform ecosystem. Not only does the Digital Services Act give civil socie ty legal standing to represent the interests of platform users\, but it als o requires online platforms of any size to explain their content moderation decisions and publish those explanations in an openly accessible database\ , inspired by the Berkman Klein Center’s Lumen database of notice and actio n requests. In addition\, a new research data access regime will allow inte rnational researchers to request information from very large online platfor ms such as AliExpress\, Amazon\, Facebook\, TikTok or the Apple and Google app stores that is necessary for research into systemic risks posed by thos e platforms\, in areas such as fundamental rights\, dissemination of illega l content\, electoral discourse\, public health or hate speech.
On th is panel\, Felix Reda\, former Member of the European Parl iament and BKC affiliate\, Malte Spitz\, secretary general of German fundamental rights litigation NGO Society for Civil Rights (GFF) and Adam Holland\, Project Manager of the Lumen project a t BKC\, will explore how researchers\, journalists and activists from acros s the globe can make use of the DSA’s provisions to improve our understandi ng of online communication and hold platform operators to account.
Felix Reda (he/they) has f ocused his political work on copyright reform and platform regulation as a Member of the European Parliament 2014-2019. He leads the strategic litigat ion project control ©\, designed to strengthen communication freedoms in re lation to copyright law\, with German fundamental rights NGO Gesellschaft f ür Freiheitsrechte (GFF). Felix is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center .
Malte Spitz (he/him) is co-founder and Secretary G eneral of Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF)/ Society for Civil Rights\ , that defends fundamental and human rights by legal means. He is a member of the National Regulatory Control Council (NKR) since 2022. Malte Spitz wa s a Green Party politician from 2006 to 2022. In the 2021 coalition negotia tions at the federal level\, he chaired the "Digital Innovations and Digita l Infrastructure" transition team for the Greens.
Adam Hollan d (he/they) has been the Project Manager for the Lumen database si nce 2012. Originally formed in 2002 as Chilling Effects\, Lumen collects\, studies and faciliates research on takedown notices and other legal removal requests concerning online content. In his role as project manager\, Adam liaises with the platforms that contribute data to Lumen\, with the researc hers and others who make use of Lumen data\, and works closely with Lumen P I Chris Bavitz\, Lumen Research Fellow Shreya Tewari\, and the BKC technolo gy team to continue to improve the database\, solidify its unique position as the Internet’s only multi-platform aggregator of takedown notice data\, and offer the knowledge it has gained through over two decades working in t his space.
https://www.tec hnologyreview.com/2023/03/06/1069391/safer-internet-dsa-dma-eu/
< a href="https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-money-effort/">https://verfassungsbl og.de/dsa-money-effort/
https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/ueber-die-gf f/unsere-strategie
Cover photo courtesy of EFF
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