In early 2002, Silicon Flatirons convened one of the first symposia on internet platform governance, setting the stage for a long-running battle for the governance of discrimination by internet service providers and network neutrality. Nearly two decades later, the focus has expanded to the gatekeeping power of social media, search, app store, online retail, and platforms such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple, and a new array of infrastructural providers of content delivery, web hosting, payment processing, denial-of-service prevention and more, yielding a firestorm of debates over the proper scope of public and private platform governance that have spilled over into the mainstream U.S. political arena.
This conference will examine contemporary platform policy debates over intermediary liability, competition, free expression, and copyright law. Expert panels and speakers will scrutinize reignited battles over network neutrality, the quickly forming governance of infrastructural providers, and ongoing battles over the reform to Section 230 of the Communications and Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Sessions
Introduction and Opening Remarks
- Blake E. Reid
Clinical Professor, University of Colorado Law School
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- Blake E. Reid
The Past and Future of Network-Layer Governance
- Ellen Satterwhite — Moderator
Vice President, Glen Echo Group - Ernesto Falcon — Panelist
Senior Legislative Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation - Jennifer Huddleston — Panelist
Director of Technology and Innovation Policy, American Action Forum - Justin (Gus) Hurwitz — Panelist
Professor of Law | Menard Director of the Nebraska Governance & Technology Center, University of Nebraska - Tejas Narechania — Panelist
Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
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- Ellen Satterwhite
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- Ernesto Falcon
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- Jennifer Huddleston
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- Gus Hurwitz
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- Tejas Narechania
Lunch Break
New Governance for the Infrastructure Layer
- Blake E. Reid — Moderator
Clinical Professor, University of Colorado Law School - Adi Robertson — Panelist
Senior Reporter, The Verge - Kathleen Ruane — Panelist
Senior Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union - Hal Singer — Panelist
Managing Director, Econ One - Alissa Starzak — Panelist
Head of Public Policy, Cloudflare
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- Blake E. Reid
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- Adi Robertson
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- Kathleen Ruane
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- Hal Singer
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- Alissa Starzak
Break
Intermediary Liability at the Application Layer and Beyond
- Kristelia García — Moderator
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School - Annemarie Bridy — Panelist
Copyright Counsel, Google - Travis Hall — Panelist
Team Lead for Internet Policy, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) - Sean O'Connor — Panelist
Professor of Law, George Mason University - Sherwin Siy — Panelist
Lead Public Policy Manager, Public Policy, Wikimedia Foundation - Folkert Wilman — Panelist
Member of Legal Service, European Commission
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- Kristelia García
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- Annemarie Bridy
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- Travis Hall
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- Sean O’Connor
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- Sherwin Siy
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- Folkert Wilman
Closing Remarks
- Evelyn Remaley
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
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- Evelyn Remaley