Dear colleagues,

I would like to thank – also on behalf of my coeditor Nicolo – the various members of this list who have submitted highly interesting papers for the Special Issue on Platform Values: Conflicting Rights, AI and Tax Avoidance and have helped organising the IGF session where the SI will be released and debated with other stakeholders.

Free hard copies of the Special Issue will be distributed at the session that will take place on 27 November, from 15:00 to 16:30 https://igf2019.sched.com/event/SU3d/dc-on-platform-responsibility

Here is a long description of the session https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2019-platform-values-conflicting-rights-ai-and-tax-avoidance

Below a shorter description of the session and the table of content of the SI.

I hope to meet some of you at the IGF

All the best

Luca

Platform Values: Conflicting Rights, AI and Tax Avoidance

This session will discuss three of the most crucial points of contention with regard to values underlying the operation of digital platforms: Conflicting Rights, Artificial Intelligence and Tax Avoidance.

The session will include presentations based on the papers featured in a special issue of the Computer Law & Security Review, celebrating five years of activities of the UN IGF Coalition on Platform Responsibility and devoted to 'Platform Value(s): Conflicting Rights, Artificial Intelligence and Tax Avoidance'.

The Special Issue, which is the 2019 official outcome of the coalition, will include also the finalised Best Practices on Platforms' Implementation on the Right to Effective Remedy, produced by the Coalition between May 2018 and March 2019 (available here). Free hard copies of the Special Issue will be distributed. 

The Special Issue will also be released in open access starting 27 November 2019. In the meantime, you can read the editorial "Platform value(s): A multidimensional framework for online responsibility" here.

The session will have the following agenda:

·       Opening remarks by Nicolo Zingales, University of Leeds, and Luca Belli, FGV 

Part I- Platform Values, Freedom of Expression and Democracy

·       Keynote by Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression Organization of American States

·       Nic Suzor, Queensland University of Technology

·       Monica Rosina, Facebook 

Quick round of questions

Part II: Platform values and content moderation

·       Chris Marsden, University of Sussex

·       Ivar Hartmann, FGV 

·       Giovanni De Gregorio, Univerista' Milano Bicocca

·       Dragana Obradovic, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network 

Quick round of questions

Part III: Conflcting rights and values

·       Catherine Carnovale, Elsevier

·       Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich

·       Catalina Goanta, Maastricht University

·       Yseult Marique, University of Essex

· Open Debate

Table of contents of the Special Issue

·       Platform Value(s):A Multidimensional Framework for Online Responsibility

Luca Belli and Nicolo Zingales 

Introductory Essays

·       Governing Digital Societies: Private Platforms, Public Values

José van Dijck

·       A Constitutional Moment: How We Might Reimagine Platform Governance

Nicolas Suzor

·       From the Telegraph to Twitter: The Case for the Digital Platform Act

Harold Feld

Conflicting Rights

·       The New City Regulators

Sofia Ranchordas and Catalina Goanta

·       Sanctions on Digital Platforms: Balancing Proportionality in the Modern Public Square

Engerrand Marique and Yseult Marique

·       A New Framework for Online Content Moderation

Ivar Hartmann

Artificial Intelligence

·       Socio-Ethical Values and Legal Rules on Automated Platforms: The Quest for a Symbiotic Relationship

Rolf H. Weber

·       Democratising Online Content Moderation: A Constitutional Framework

Giovanni De Gregorio

·       Platform Values and Democratic Elections: How Can the Law Regulate Digital Disinformation?

Chris Marsden, Trisha Meyer and Ian Brown

Tax Avoidance

·       The Progressive Policy Shift in the Debate on the International Tax Challenges of the Digital Economy: A “Pretext” for Overhaul of the International Tax Regime?

Alessandro Turina

·       E-commerce and Effective VAT/GST Enforcement: Can Online Platforms Play a Valuable Role?

Luisa Scarcella

Annex

·       Best Practices Platforms’ Implementation of the Right to an Effective Remedy