Eileen Donahoe on Protecting Free Expression Online
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🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On this episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Eileen Donahoe, the Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University. There’s no shortage of controversies roiling right now about free expression and the future of the internet—from platforms aggressively removing misinformation about the ongoing pandemic, to President Trump’s executive order targeting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Eileen, Quinta and Alina take a step back and review the landscape of online speech as a whole, to get a more holistic sense of what things look like right now and where platforms and governments might be headed when it comes to regulating speech. They talked about the various debates over content moderation taking place within the United States and around the world, and Eileen made the case for why international human rights law should be used as the framework for both protecting and moderating online speech.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.4 | That erosion of this core concept of platform immunity from liability for user generated |
| 0:43.5 | content is really the heart of free expression online. |
| 0:48.9 | They should not forget that. |
| 0:51.4 | The simple idea being the motivation of platforms to protect free expression will be destroyed |
| 0:58.5 | if they bear liability for user generated speech and they will be very ready. |
| 1:03.7 | They'll err on the side of overtake gap and they will take down speech that's not illegal |
| 1:10.3 | or defamatory just to protect themselves. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast June 11, 2020. |
| 1:21.8 | It's another episode of our Arrarders of Truth series on disinformation. |
| 1:26.5 | This week, Alina Pollyokova and I spoke with Ilene Donahoe, the executive director of the |
| 1:32.1 | digital policy incubator at Stanford University. |
| 1:36.3 | There's no shortage of controversies roiling right now about free expression in the future |
| 1:40.3 | of the internet. |
| 1:41.8 | From platforms aggressively removing misinformation and disinformation about the ongoing pandemic, |
| 1:47.4 | the President Trump's recent executive order targeting Section 230 of the Communications |
| 1:51.8 | Decency Act. |
| 1:54.0 | So we wanted to take a step back and review the landscape of online speech as a whole |
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