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Jillian C. York, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF);
"Through Onlinecensorship.org and various other projects—including this year’s censorship edition of our annual Who Has Your Back?
report—we’ve highlighted the challenges and pitfalls that companies
face as they seek to moderate content on their platforms. Over the past
year, we’ve seen this issue come into the spotlight through advocacy
initiatives like the Santa Clara Principles, media such as the documentary The Cleaners, and now, featured in the latest report
by Professor David Kaye, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the
promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and
expression.
Toward greater freedom, accountability, and transparency
The Special Rapporteur’s latest is the first-ever UN report to focus
on the regulation of user-generated content online, and comes at a time
of heated debate on the impact of disinformation, extremism, and hateful
speech. The report focuses on the obligations of both State actors and
ICT companies. It aims at finding user-centered, human rights
law-aligned approaches to content policy-making, transparency, due
process, and governance on platforms that host user-generated content."
