New subject: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020

13 May 2020

Dear Paddy,

Many thanks for your appreciation and enthusiasm. Please feel free to remove your name
from any term! The idea is for everyone to contribute as much as they can and on terms
they feel strongly about…and it sounds like you have a preference there : )

If any of the proposed terms are left unaddressed, we can simply remove them (unless they
are really essential). We might also be able to bring in a couple more people, and please
do feel free to extend the invitation to anyone you feel would be interested!

Best,
Nicolo
From: "Leerssen, Paddy" &lt;p.j.leerssen(a)uva.nl&gt;
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 08:32
To: Nicolo Zingales &lt;nicolo.zingales(a)fgv.br&gt;br>, &quot;LB(a)lucabelli.net&quot;
&lt;LB(a)lucabelli.net&gt;et>, Richard Wingfield &lt;richard(a)gp-digital.org&gt;rg>,
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Subject: RE: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020

Dear Luca, Dear Nicolo,

Thanks for your message. I’m afraid this isn’t the answer you were hoping for, but I’m
actually hoping I could reduce my contribution somewhat.

It’s my own fault, of course, but I got a bit carried away in my enthusiasm and
self-registered for 10 different terms. Now I’m a bit worried about the workload, keeping
in mind not only the admonitions of my PhD supervisors but of course also with a view to
ensuring the quality of my contribution.

I’d feel a lot more comfortable if I was able to drop three or four terms. Whether or not
we try to find replacements, or instead drop some of these terms entirely, is a decision
I’ll leave up to you. If possible, I would prefer to retain the terms ‘governance’,
‘platform governance’, ‘curation’, ‘amplification’ and ‘microtargeting’, and ‘media
pluralism’. I am less attached to ‘must-carry’, ‘common carrier’, ‘utility’,
‘infrastructure’. But I’m of course willing to be flexible depending on what you think is
best for the project.

Again, thanks for involving me in this, and sorry for letting my eyes grow bigger than my
stomach. I think it’s interesting and important work.

All the best,

Paddy
PhD Candidate<https://www.ivir.nl/nl/medewerker/paddyleerssen/> | University of
Amsterdam | Instituut voor Informatierecht (IViR)
Non-Residential Fellow<http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/paddy-leerssen> |
Stanford University | Stanford Center for Internet & Society

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Van: Nicolo Zingales [mailto:nicolo.zingales@fgv.br]
Verzonden: 12 May 2020 03:32
Aan: LB(a)lucabelli.net; Richard Wingfield &lt;richard(a)gp-digital.org&gt;rg>;
cpr(a)listas.altermundi.net
Onderwerp: Re: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020

Dear all,
Thank you very much for the terms you suggested, and for your expressions of interest to
provide definitions of several terms.  We have put together a decent number of them, 63
terms to be precise, and 14 contributors.
However, we are currently short of contributors for about 20 terms, so in order to have a
complete list we would kindly ask each of you by 15 May (our original deadline) to pick
between one and two additional terms that have not yet been taken (those highlighted in
green in the shared
doc<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdo…)mp;reserved=0>).
There are a couple of situations where we have suggested that two terms should be defined
by the same person as they are closely related, for example the definition of self- and
co-regulation.
Where more than one contributor exists for a specific term, we would welcome a
collaboration between those contributors at the drafting stage, so as to make it easier to
integrate each other’s input in the definition. In practice, it would be ideal if those
contributors could come up with a joint definition, hoping this is fine for you.
Please let us know any questions or suggestions. We’ll get back to you with the final list
by the end of the week.
All the best,
Luca and Nicolo

From: "LB@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@lucabelli.net>"
<LB@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@lucabelli.net>>
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2020 at 10:51
To: Richard Wingfield <richard@gp-digital.org<mailto:richard@gp-digital.org>>,
"cpr@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:cpr@listas.altermundi.net>"
<cpr@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:cpr@listas.altermundi.net>>
Cc: Nicolo Zingales <nicolo.zingales@fgv.br<mailto:nicolo.zingales@fgv.br>>
Subject: RE: 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

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Subject: Re: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020
From: "Richard Wingfield"
<richard@gp-digital.org<mailto:richard@gp-digital.org>>
Date: 4/14/20 6:18 am
To: "cpr@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:cpr@listas.altermundi.net>"
<cpr@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:cpr@listas.altermundi.net>>
Cc: "Luca Belli" <LB@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@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

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On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 00:52, <LB@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@lucabelli.net>>
wrote:
Thanks for the useful comments Giovanni!
Hope you and your family are healthy and safe!
Best
Luca

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Subject: Re: [CPR] Platform Regulations Glossary for IGF 2020
From: "Giovanni De Gregorio"
<g.degregorio@campus.unimib.it<mailto:g.degregorio@campus.unimib.it>>
Date: 4/9/20 5:48 am
To: "LB@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@lucabelli.net>"
<LB@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@lucabelli.net>>
Cc: "cpr@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:cpr@listas.altermundi.net>"
<cpr@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:cpr@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@lucabelli.net<mailto:LB@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
<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1hYVd8DiICKJ9ltBaGPp_PACRWaRK3cEgfsbG-9ClxZ4%2Fedit&data=02%7C01%7Cp.j.leerssen%40uva.nl%7Cdb476ecfb0074c34429008d7f61455d4%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637248439527861753&sdata=Gqmj4sctmlBZGEZvWE%2FjcfT8tK7QFNt9Hsbch9llguo%3D&reserved=0>
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

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