Policymakers have spent years designing legal guidelines and rules to go after Large Tech. However they weren’t ready for the rise of decentralized alternate options. The previous couple of years have seen large development in decentralized Web companies—from cryptocurrencies and NFTs on the blockchain to microblogging companies like Mastodon and video streaming companies like PeerTube. These companies give attention to decentralizing widespread on-line companies to offer customers with peer-to-peer alternate options to “Large Tech.” Advocates of decentralized companies consider it should give customers extra selection over what guidelines they comply with, what content material they see, and what private knowledge they share—probably enhancing free speech, consumer security, and knowledge privateness. However policymakers have largely designed Web rules for centralized companies. Latest legal guidelines, together with the Digital Companies Act and the On-line Security Invoice, present extra questions than solutions on how they might probably have an effect on decentralized platforms.
Be part of the Middle for Information Innovation to debate the challenges policymakers face in making use of present legal guidelines and rules to decentralized on-line companies.
Date and Time:
- February 28, 2023, 4:00 PM to five:00 PM (CET) / 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EST)
Audio system:
- Neil Chilson, Senior Analysis Fellow for Tech and Innovation, Stand Collectively
- Konstantinos Komaitis, Web Coverage Knowledgeable and Writer of The Present State of Area Identify Regulation
- Gina Neff, Govt Director, Minderoo Centre for Know-how and Democracy
- Kir Nuthi, Senior Coverage Analyst, Middle for Information Innovation (moderator)
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