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Will the UK be the "Safest" Place in the World to Go Online? (And do we want it to be?)

Tuesday 19 November
6:30pm-8:00pm

Sheikh Zayed Theatre
LSE New Academic Building
54 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LJ
More information<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=f3cf0ed61d&e=30d22446a4>

A year after the report of the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=27385ee03f&e=30d22446a4> was published, this panel will discuss how ideas about regulating social media and other online services have developed in the UK and internationally, interrogating the UK government's assertion that Britain is to become the 'safest' place in the world to be online.

The panel will be followed by a drinks reception.

Speakers:
Madeleine de Cock Buning is Professor of Media and Communications Law at the University of Utrecht and Professor of Digital Politics, Economy and Societies at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute.

Robin Mansell (@REMVAN<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=129c4e6072&e=30d22446a4>) is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE.

Victor Pickard (@VWPickard<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=8469ac496d&e=30d22446a4>) is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Chair: Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=fab9002462&e=30d22446a4>) is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEt3

For more details see http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2019/11/20191119t1830vSZT/will-the-uk<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=fd35ca397e&e=30d22446a4>






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