The Universitat de València, together with the Platform for the Defense of Free Expression (PDLI), has organised the activity in which Miguel del Fresno (sociologist and professor at the UNED); Margarita Robles (professor at the University of Granada); Joan Barata (jurist expert in freedom of expression and member of the PDLI and Stanford CIS and advisor to several international organisations); Lorenzo Cotino (professor of Constitutional Law at the Universitat de València, and coordinator of the www. derechotics.com); Carlos Sánchez (legal director of the PDLI, an expert lawyer in technology at Bufete Almeida); Marta Timón (Supreme Court lawyer); and Yolanda Quintana (journalist and general secretary of the PDLI).

The regulation of social networks and Internet platforms is one of the scenarios where freedom of expression is at stake today. Issues such as its responsibility in the dissemination of certain harmful content and who and how it must be controlled and avoided are at the centre of a debate that is neither legally nor politically closed.

On the political front, this tension was sparked off this week by Donald Trump's decision to sign an executive order to limit the immunity of social networks for their users' comments after Twitter labelled some of the president's messages as dubious.

To analyze all this, there will be an online debate that can be followed:

Webinar access on Blackboard (no installation required)

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/17a4af63280c4c7792bd8d9d746a25e1 

To follow live via Youtube:

https://youtu.be/Cnp3O9k05EU