{"id":123005,"date":"2022-01-04T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/?page_id=123005"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:23:44","slug":"regulation-of-social-media-in-the-global-context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/en\/regulation-of-social-media-in-the-global-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation of Social Media in the Global Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2><p>Social media platforms have evolved into the \u2018modern public square\u2019 - with all the legal complexities involved. Public discourse, free speech and global online crime prevention are all at present under extreme pressures, due to both significant over-blocking and under-blocking by social media platforms. At the one end of the spectrum, user-generated content is far too often subject to robo-takedowns. At the other extreme, clearly criminal activities such as online child sexual abuse runs rampant and is not blocked nearly enough throughout the world. These two extremes are to a great extent caused by an inadequate and unbalanced content moderation and legal architecture developed by the digital gatekeepers. Moreover, the manner in which the Internet\u2019s so-called \u2018attention merchants\u2019 and \u2018surveillance capitalists\u2019 misuse personal privacy through the data-harvesting and micro-targeting of individuals who gather in the \u2018modern public squares\u2019 is of enormous public concern internationally. There is a clear and present need to ensure justice is done within the international digital community as evidenced by the public concern on these fundamental issues as they play out on the world\u2019s social media platforms.&nbsp; Due process, procedural fairness and natural law might form the basis of an online infrastructure to restore fundamental freedoms and support the rule of law in the digital world.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speaker<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-text-image\">\n  <div class=\"row align-bottom collapse\">\n    <div class=\"column small-12 medium-6 xlarge-5 xxlarge-expand wp-block-text-image-info js-fade-scroll\">\n      <p class=\"wp-block-text-image-title\">Frederick Mostert<\/p>\n      <div class=\"wp-block-text-image-intro\"><p>Frederick Mostert is a Professor of Practice at The Dickson Poon School of Law.\u00a0 He is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, University of Oxford.\u00a0He is a founder of the Digital Scholarship Institute and Digilabs.\u00a0He received the \u2018Rising Star\u2019 Teaching Excellence Award from King\u2019s for 2017-18. Frederick was also inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame in 2015, which honours those who have helped to establish intellectual property as one of the key business assets of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Frederick is a Past President of the\u00a0International Trademark Association and currently the President of the Luxury Law Alliance. He served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and Chief Legal Counsel of\u00a0Richemont, which includes Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Alfred Dunhill, and Chloe.\u00a0 His opinion pieces have been featured in the Financial Times\u00a0and the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"column small-12 medium-6 xlarge-7 xxlarge-shrink wp-block-text-image-picture js-fade-scroll\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/photo11-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-text_image size-text_image\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AbstractSocial media platforms have evolved into the \u2018modern public square\u2019 &#8211; with all the legal complexities involved. 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