The draft Digital Services Act (DSA), published by the EU Commission in
December 2020, seeks to build a safer and better Internet for all EU citizens.


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CEP & Das NETTZ Webinar: The New EU Digital Services Act (DSA) – Will Social
Media Users Be Safer In The Future?

 

(New York, N.Y.) —The draft Digital Services Act (DSA), published by the EU
Commission in December 2020, seeks to build a safer and better Internet for all
EU citizens. Unfortunately, despite introducing some promising new elements
like transparency and auditing requirements, the draft potentially falls short
of its main objective.

 

Research highlights that the harmful effects of many social media and video
sharing platforms, particularly in the form of hate speech and illegal
(terrorist) content, are systemic and cannot be characterized as unintended
consequences of an otherwise healthy business model.

 

Margrethe Vestager, EU Commissioner for the Digital Age, has described large
tech companies as “threats to democracy and anticompetitive,” and at the same
time, big tech’s lobby groups are welcoming the draft legislation. In
particular, the tech industry has lauded the proposed legislation’s
continuation of the limited liability privilege, which essentially allows
companies to moderate harmful and illegal user content any way they deem fit
without being liable. The proposed compliance and content moderation framework
lacks procedural clarity and ignores major lessons learned from the German
NetzDG law as well as from (failed) auditing/compliance systems from the
financial sector.

 

At this online event, we will examine in depth the positive and negative
aspects of the draft DSA. The discussion will focus on the question if this
legislation will be capable of protecting EU citizens better from online harms.

 

The webinar will be held in English via Zoom on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at
09:00 a.m. ET / 15:00 CEST.

 

EVENT AGENDA:

 

Opening remarks by Lucinda Creighton, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism
Project (CEP) in Europe.

 

Panelists:

 

Alexander Ritzmann, Senior Advisor, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 

Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor, European Commission, Directorate-General for
Justice and Consumers

 

Josephine Ballon, Head of Legal, HateAid

 

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 

The event will be moderated by Hanna Gleiß of Das NETTZ (networking initiative
against hate speech, betterplace lab)

 

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the issues with the speakers
following their respective presentations in Q&A segments. Please feel free to
share this invitation with colleagues.

 

To participate in this webinar, please register via the following link:

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In the context of the EU Commission´s consultation process CEP
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