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The proliferation of digital services has provided people with enormous opportunities for communication, creativity, and commerce worldwide, but at the same time, also enabled the spread of a vast range of harmful content and behaviour online.
Policymakers across the world have slowly acted to address these issues. Some policy responses, such as the Regulation Addressing the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online (TERREG) covered only particularly egregious activities whilst others, like the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) only targeted a small segment of services in the digital platform’s domain.
Recently, more encompassing pieces of legislation have come to life. The Digital Services Act (DSA) in the EU and the draft Online Safety Bill (OSB) in the UK cover a wide range of online services and have the potential to become the standard setting for a wider European region or even beyond.
Amidst a flurry of various media legislation with different scopes of application, sever questions arise:
To discuss these questions, CERRE will host an online event on 22 November, between 14:00-15:30 CET that will concentrate on a CERRE report authored by Sally Broughton Micova (CERRE Academic Co-Director) and Michèle Ledger (CERRE Research Fellow) that systematically compares the aforementioned pieces of legislation from two perspectives: the services in scope and the harms in scope.
This event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Viewers will also have the chance to ask questions via the Q&A section on Zoom.
If you can’t join us live, the event will be available to replay on the CERRE YouTube channel afterwards.
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Michèle Ledger is a researcher at the CRIDS research centre of the University of Namur where she also lectures on the regulatory aspects of online platforms at the postmaster degree course (DTIC). She has been working for more than 20 years at Cullen International and leads the company’s Media regulatory intelligence service.
Sally Broughton Micova is a CERRE Academic Co-Director and an Associate Professor in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She is also a member of UEA’s Centre for Competition Policy.
Her research focuses on media and communications policy in Europe.
She completed her PhD in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), after which she was an LSE Teaching and Research Fellow in Media Governance and Policy and Deputy Director of the LSE Media Policy Project.
Alexandre de Streel is the Academic Director of the digital research programme at CERRE and Professor of European law at the University of Namur where he chairs the Namur Digital Institute (NADI). Alexandre is also visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. Besides, he chairs the expert group on the online platform economy advising the European Commission and is a part-time judge at the Belgian Competition Authority.
His main areas of research are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence.
Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, European University Institute in Florence, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission.
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