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
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[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_City,_Missouri


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_Services_Act_Package

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]

The deadline for this is 30 June.

==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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