TACKLING ILLEGAL CONTENT ONLINE
Meeting with CEOs of Online platforms, 9 January 2018
Meeting objectives:
I.
Inform the online platforms about EU’s policy on tacking illegal content;
II.
Gather input from online platforms on their actions and achievement to
address the spread of illegal content online;
III.
Assess the commitment and ongoing actions from platforms to achieving
European policy objectives and discuss next steps.
Meeting held under the Chatham House Rules
Time
Agenda Item
10:00-10:30
Registrations
10:30-11:30
Tackling Illegal Content Online: a global challenge
Moderator: European Political Strategy Center
10:30-10:40
Speech VP Ansip and Commissioner Gabriel
Welcoming participants and setting out political priorities
10:40-10:50
State of play and challenges to tackle hate speech, terrorist content,
counterfeit products and other types of illegal content:
•
Intervention from Commissioner Avramopoulos and Commissioner
King on tackling illegal content and fighting terrorism including
through the EU Internet Forum and future steps.
•
Intervention from Commissioner Jourova on how participation in
the code of conduct on illegal hate speech offers economies of scale
and can help new platforms live up to the "asks" in the
Communication.
10:50-11:30
Round-table discussion
Selected 3 short interventions from platforms from US, EU, Asia.
(Ongoing bilateral discussions with CEOs participating).
Followed by discussion with participants.
11:30-12:50
Focussing on how to tackle concretely illegal content; how can
proactive measures lead to better results? What challenges for
companies?
Moderator: European Political Strategy Center
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11:30-11:45
Innovative technologies for detection and take-down of illegal
content
Speaker tbc – selected amongst the most advanced platforms in
deploying and developing technology for filtering illegal content
(ongoing bilateral discussion with CEOs participating). The talk would
highlight the solutions and governance models used by the platform, as
well as the general trends and expected evolution of such technologies.
The talk would give further details as to the safeguards in place and
further action needed.
11:45-12:00
Fighting illegal content: an SME's perspective
Speaker tbc – selected amongst the CEOs of the small and medium
enterprises invited to the discussion (ongoing bilateral discussion with
CEOs participating). The talk would flag the challenges and innovative
solutions developed by SMEs, as well as the need for collaboration
across the industry to support the re-use of such tools and approaches.
12:00-12:50
Round-table discussion
Interventions from participants on
•
actions taken by online platforms to fight illegal content, results
and challenges;
•
key lessons learned on actions developed to fight illegal content
including ongoing multistakeholder fora;
•
the promises and use of technologies, as well as their challenges
in deploying automatic tools and other proactive measures taken
by companies;
•
the challenges for their companies and for SMEs, as well as
willingness and appetite for collaboration across the industry,
and support needed from policy-makers.
12:50-13:00
Looking forward: conclusions of the day and next steps
Closing remarks by Commissioner Gabriel
13:00-13:45
Lunch
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