Broadband Breakfast on April 6, 2022 — Censorship by a Country, or Censorship by a Tech Platform?

See “Panelists Urge Government Resist Getting Involved in Content Moderation,” Broadband Breakfast, April 14, 2022

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 12 Noon ET — Censorship by a Country, or Censorship by a Tech Platform?

Residents of countries under authoritarian control face censorship of what they can post online and limitations on what websites they can visit. At home in the U.S., much of the political right views current content moderation policies of social media platforms as their own form of censorship. How do these content control practices compare? Just how similar are the scenarios and solutions proposed by their opponents? Join us for a timely Broadband Breakfast conversation about hot domestic and international issues amid the tumult on the world scene today.

Panelists for this Broadband Breakfast Live Online session:

• Bronwyn Howell, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
• Kian Vesteinsson, Research Analyst, Freedom House
• Berin Szoka, President, TechFreedom
• Drew Clark (moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Panelist resources:

• Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech, Freedom House
• Facebook is Failing Iranians, and Iran’s Leaders Are About to Launch a Censored Internet, Broadband Breakfast, January 28, 2022
• Elon Musk to Join Twitter’s Board of Directors After Becoming Largest Shareholder, Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2022
• Justice Thomas’s Misguided Concurrence on Platform Regulation, Lawfare, April 14, 2021
• No, Florida Can’t Regulate Online Speech, Lawfare, March 12, 2021
• The Wall Street Journal Misreads Section 230 and the First Amendment, Lawfare, February 3, 2021
• TechFreedom amicus brief
• Gunning for Facebook and free speech, Bronwyn Howell, American Enterprise Institute
• Can international social media censorship succeed?, Bronwyn Howell, American Enterprise Institute
• Calling out the ‘Christchurch call’, Bronwyn Howell, American Enterprise Institute

Bronwyn Howell is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on the regulation, development, and deployment of new technologies and the use of technology in the health sector. She also uses multiple methodologies from economics, decision sciences, public policy, and governance to address issues of policy and management in the information, communications, and digital technology industries. As a resident of New Zealand, she is especially interested in exploring how experiences in other countries (notably Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) can inform debate and policy in the United States (and vice versa).

Kian Vesteinsson is a research analyst for technology and democracy at Freedom House, where he serves as an expert on human rights in the digital age. He covers Asia for Freedom on the Net, Freedom House’s annual assessment of internet freedom, and has also covered sub-Saharan Africa and western Europe for the publication. Previously, Kian worked at Human Rights Watch and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Berin Szoka serves as President of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF, he was an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he advised clients on regulations affecting the Internet and telecommunications industries.

Drew Clark is the Editor and Publisher of BroadbandBreakfast.com and a nationally-respected telecommunications attorney. Drew brings experts and practitioners together to advance the benefits provided by broadband. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, he served as head of a State Broadband Initiative, the Partnership for a Connected Illinois. He is also the President of the Rural Telecommunications Congress.

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