Friday, October 4, 2019
Fordham University School of Law, Costantino Room
150 West 62nd Street
New York, NY10023

Partner Robert deBrauwere will be a speaker at Fordham University's 27th Annual Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (IPLJ) Symposium. Rob will be speaking at The Platform Governance panel.

The Platform Governance panel will evaluate different governance models, determining whether there is a more effective model to address content distribution on social media platforms. Facebook is soon to release its final charter for its proposed Oversight Board, an independent global body with the authority to review its most contentious content decisions. Panelists will discuss whether such an appeals process can create accountability over the platform's content policy and enforcement decisions, and how it can manage the needs of different cultures and perspectives on free expression. Panelists will also explore the balance between private and public ordering, and the limits of government oversight on social media. As a matter of constitutional law, a social media platform is not a public forum. Yet, despite the Supreme Court's recent reaffirmation of this point in Halleck v. Manhattan Community Access Corp., the metaphor of social media as "the new public square" remains seductive and arguably reflects the reality of life online. Panelists will consider whether and how the principles that animate the First Amendment should inform industry self-regulation and the wider policy debate in ways that neither the First Amendment itself nor freedom of speech jurisprudence could.

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