Re: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020

Dear Richard, Thank you for your interest and for sharing these thoughtful comments. Both points relate to an intrinsic limitation of this exercise: it will be extremely hard to make a comprehensive and detailed glossary, especially considering the limited time and resources that people are likely to be able to put into this commitment in these hectic times. We can try to assuage those concerns by: (1) making sure the list of terms features some of the most pressing and debated issues in the debate over platform law and policy. It is probably a good choice not to get into the definition of specific types of illegal content, as that would be heavily dependent on the jurisdiction in question, but it may be a remiss not to attempt a definition of the policy issues that are used to claim/justify some form of platform responsibility beyond what the applicable law requires. So, in this sense, defining disinformation, trolling and “inauthentic coordinated behaviour” (a concept that Facebook uses to prevent coordinated forms of “misuse” of their service in violation of community standards) would appear more useful than defining terms like hate speech, defamation, violent extremism, terrorism, bullying, revenge pornography. (2) in the definitions, recognizing as much as possible the existence of competing/alternative views on the topic, possibly also providing links to sources where those views are more fully explained. While our goal is definitely to be schematic and clear, as you suggest, I'd like to think that this group can add value by referencing some of the cases/official documents of public authorities that address those concepts in more detail. In other words, we do not have to entirely sacrifice nuance for the sake of clarity and simplicity, if we can add links/references. Perhaps one challenge there is how to maintain as much as possible an impartial and objective perspective while also recognizing the diversity of approaches, but I don't think the two are irreconcilable if we maintain a sufficiently abstract and high-level approach. After all, it is not uncommon for glossaries to have more than one entry for each concept, right? Happy to discuss this more in detail, either in the list or within the group of people who volunteered to participate. We'll circulate an email to those people shortly with more information about our next steps. All the best, Nicolo and Luca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro Chercheur Associé, Centre de Droit Public Comparé, Université Paris 2 www.cyberbrics.info | www.cpdp.lat | www.internet-governance.fgv.br t: @1lucabelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, as well as any attached document, may contain personal data and information that is confidential and privileged and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this email or attached documents, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email by mistake. --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020 From: "Richard Wingfield" <richard(a)gp-digital.org> Date: 4/14/20 6:18 am To: "cpr(a)listas.altermundi.net" <cpr(a)listas.altermundi.net> Cc: "Luca Belli" <LB(a)lucabelli.net> Dear all, A huge thanks to Luca and Nicolo for getting the ball rolling on this. I think it's a really interesting and useful project and I look forward to being a part of it! One question I do have is how we approach the idea of providing definitions of particular types of illegal/harmful content (at present, the list includes disinformation and hate speech, but I can see others are already making suggestions). While it may well be necessary to look at these through the Glossary, I can see a couple of challenges. First, there are dozens of types of such illegal/harmful content (the list could easily also include defamation, bullying, violent extremism, terrorism, trolling, revenge pornography), all of which are concerning to policymakers. We'll need to think carefully over which ones we want to include as, conceptually, it might be hard to justify including some but not others. Second, it's almost impossible to define some of these satisfactorily. Experts in the field haven't been able to reach agreement on a definition for hate speech, for example, and I'm not sure that even the brilliant minds within DCPR will be able to reach consensus. We may want to think about how we can help promote good, clear definitions of some of these terms, without necessarily suggesting that we have the perfect definitions I'd be interested in others' thoughts on this, and how we can use the Glossary to help move the discussion forward among policymakers on these sensitive issues. Richard Richard Wingfield Head of Legal | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL Second Home, 68 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 | Skype: richard(a)gp-digital.org gp-digital.org FlowCrypt Public Key Fingerprint: 2F6F 9208 0F6E 17AD 8785 9903 E3BB 454E B7A2 690D On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 00:52, <LB(a)lucabelli.net> wrote: Thanks for the useful comments Giovanni! Hope you and your family are healthy and safe! Best Luca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro Chercheur Associé, Centre de Droit Public Comparé, Université Paris 2 www.cyberbrics.info | www.cpdp.lat | www.internet-governance.fgv.br t: @1lucabelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, as well as any attached document, may contain personal data and information that is confidential and privileged and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this email or attached documents, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email by mistake. --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020 From: "Giovanni De Gregorio" <g.degregorio(a)campus.unimib.it> Date: 4/9/20 5:48 am To: "LB(a)lucabelli.net" <LB(a)lucabelli.net> Cc: "cpr(a)listas.altermundi.net" <cpr(a)listas.altermundi.net> Dear all, happy to participate in this project. It sounds interesting and, I would say, useful. I have already added some other key terms, especially focusing on online advertising. Hope to meet you all in November. Please take care! Best wishes Giovanni Il giorno mer 8 apr 2020 alle ore 21:34 <LB(a)lucabelli.net> ha scritto: Dear all, Hopefully this email finds you well and in good health in these troubled times. Its goal is to solicit your input into work to be developed as coalition 2020 output and the organisation of the annual IGF meeting. As you might know, the IGF Secretariat recently issued its call for proposals for workshops and DC meetings for the next IGF, which should in principle (Coronavirus permitting) take place in Poland on 2-6 November. As one of the Dynamic Coalitions, we can reserve a slot by showing that we have been working on some form of output; therefore, we would like to hereby launch a process of implementation of the main suggestions made in our informal meeting at the 2019 IGF, i.e. to create a Glossary of key terms on platform law and policy, so as to provide a common language for academics, regulators and policy-makers when discussing issues of platform responsibility. As usual, we rely on spontaneous contributions of members of this list, and thus we let the list of terms be shaped by your intuition of what is most useful. Here is a shared document where you can indicate terms for which you could provide a definition, in clear and objective terms. Some examples of key concepts are listed in the document, but please feel free to add more. Definitions could vary in length and focus (and the more nuance the better), but we would aim this to be a “living document” where we can bring together contributions from a range of disciplines and vocabularies. So, by all means, do not hesitate to put your name if you are inclined to provide a definition for a particular term in the list, even if someone else has already indicated their availability to do so. We will then help coordinate to ensure that the inputs from multiple contributors are complementary, rather than duplicating efforts. At this point, we would like to simply receive your feedback as regards your interest in the development of the glossary and to participate in the DCPR session as a speaker (the former being a prerequisite for the latter). Our proposed plan (on which we welcome any feedback) is the following: 1) by 15 April: receive your expressions of interest for the development of the Glossary and participation to the session, so that we can submit a request for an IGF 2020 Session of the Coalition (the deadline is the 22of April) 2) by 15 May: consolidate your proposed terms and share a first drafts of the list of terms that will compose the Glossary, to which you can add further terms or express your feedback until the 30th of May. 3) by 30 June: those who have expressed interest regarding the elaboration of specific terms will add their proposed definitions (ideally between 100 and 1000 words) to the shared document 4) by 30 July: we will allow all coalition members to share further updates and/or add alternative definitions to the list of proposed definitions 5) by 30 August we will have a finalised version of the Glossary that we can proofread and send to our designer to print a booklet that will be circulated at the IGF with acknowledgment of contributors. Any comments are very welcome! Best regards Luca and Nicolo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro Chercheur Associé, Centre de Droit Public Comparé, Université Paris 2 www.cyberbrics.info | www.cpdp.lat | www.internet-governance.fgv.br t: @1lucabelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, as well as any attached document, may contain personal data and information that is confidential and privileged and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. 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