Hi, Dimi et al.:
Might it be useful to try to engage both the Elecctronic Frontier
Foundation (
eff.org) and Lawrence Lessig[1] in strategizing on the most
effective response to this, if you aren't already?
EFF is the only organization I know that focuses primarily on
internet law. Lessig is a Harvard Law prof, who has made seminal
contributions to the law regarding free and open-source software, the
Creative Commons, net neutrality, political corruption, and Eastern
European constitutional law. He spoke at Wikimania 2006.
Beyond that, have you considered trying to arrange international
virtual town halls at, say, 8 AM and 8 PM in Greenwich. The 8 AM
conference would be a normal daytime event in Europe, Africa, Asia and
the Western Pacific. The 8 PM conference would be a normal daytime
event for the Eastern Pacific, the Americas, and the Atlantic. We could
record events like these and publish them with transcripts to
Wikiversity.[2]
And further beyond that, I'm a journalist with 90.1 FM,
KKFI.org,
Kansas City Community Radio, an affiliate of the Pacifica Radio Network,
which includes roughly 200 community radio stations, mostly in the US
and Canada but a few in Europe and one in Africa. I can find an hour in
KKFI's 24/7 broadcast schedule for something like this, and I believe I
could get a half hour of it aired on "Sprouts", which is routinely
broadcasts by between 50 and 100 Pacifica Affiliates.
Spencer Graves, PhD
User:DavidMCEddy
Founder
EffectiveDefense.org
4550 Warwick Blvd 508
Kansas City, MO 64111
m: 408-655-4567
[1]
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig
[2] I created "Improving schools/Pre-K for All in Kansas City,
Missouri", which links to separate articles featuring videos and
transcripts of presentations by groups both for an against a sales tax
increase to pay for "Pre-K for All in Kansas City, Missouri", which
voters ultimately rejected in 2019.
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improving_schools/Pre-K_for_All_in_Kansas_C…
On 2020-06-03 08:00, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov wrote:
Hi all,
The long awaited Digital Services Act package consultations (yes
several) have been published yesterday.
*==Consultation Survey==*
The main part *seems* to be a humongous six section survey on all
sorts of aspects of the online world, covering things like
self-employed people using online platforms, illegal content, hate
speech and competition law.
We have extracted the questions on Meta-Wiki and invite all interested
Wikimedians and friends to comment or edit answers:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Consultation_on_the_Digital_Servi…
The question are more general, social questions like "Should platforms
work against misinformation during an election or health crisis?" and
"Should speaking time in democratic debates be limited online as we do
offline?".
But there are also some very concrete questions, like "Are public
interest notices and notices that refer to other sources the right
tool to avoid censorship while tackling misinformation?" or "How to
define online platforms acting as gatekeepers and should we regulate
them additionally with ex-ante rules?" or even "Does the current
liability regime need clarifications, like what is "active" and
"passive" and a "mere intermediary"?"
The deadline for this is 8 September.
*==Feedback on ex ante regulatory instrument of very large online
platforms acting as gatekeepers==*
The Commission is having an entire section in the consultation about
what would be "gatekeeper platforms" and how they should be regulated.
Nevertheless, they are inviting stakeholders to provide a free-form
position on this*. *Both the separate nature of this consultation and
its much shorter timeline are suspicious*. *[1]*
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The deadline for this is 30 June. *
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*==Feedback on deepening the Internal Market and clarifying
responsibilities for digital services==*
In a second, also much shorter, parallel consultation the Commission
is asking about the liability rules for online platforms. This is also
free-form and covers ground the large survey already asks about. [2]
The deadline for this is also 30 June.
We are already working on this across Berlin, Brussels, DC and San
Francisco. Feel free to join the effort! Get in touch directly, edit
on Meta-Wiki or spark up a conversation here on the list.
Cheers,
Dimi
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12418-Digital-Services-Act-package-ex-ante-regulatory-instrument-of-very-large-online-platforms-acting-as-gatekeepers
[2]https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12417-Digital-Services-Act-deepening-the-Internal-Market-and-clarifying-responsibilities-for-digital-services
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