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RightsCon Toronto 2018

Welcome to the Official Schedule for RightsCon Toronto 2018. This year’s program, built by our global community, is our most ambitious one yet. Within the program, you will find 18 thematic tracks to help you navigate our 450+ sessions.

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Susan Coughtrie

Article 19
Senior Programme Officer for Europe and Central Asia
United Kingdom

Since joining ARTICLE 19 in February 2012, Susan has worked on a number of issues related to freedom of expression and right to information across the Eurasia region – including media freedom, safety of journalists, countering hate speech against minorities and restrictions to freedom of expression online.

09:00 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Opening Ceremonies 206A

10:30 EDT

Harnessing Data to Visualize Trends in Global Civil Society 200A Content regulation in the digital age: Defining terms and examining content moderation at scale 205C Is the Internet Freedom Strategy Dead? 203B Bot Battles: Disinformation, Computational Propaganda and Speech Regulation – Digital Rights and Press Freedom 201C Lightning Talks: State Sponsored Trolls & (Dis) information 205A Paralysis through disruption: Understanding the full human impacts of network disruptions 204A A Decade of Progress: Where Do We Go Next? 205B

12:00 EDT

(Not) Some Kinda Magic: Human Rights Impacts Assessments (HRIAs) for Infrastructure Providers and Business Actors 205B

14:30 EDT

Online Criticism, Falsified Court Orders & the Role of Intermediaries: Coping With Takedown Requests of Questionable Legitimacy. 202B When the government goes phishing. State-sponsored phishing and disinformation campaigns. 206C Human rights due diligence in telecommunications – is the current practice the good practice? 205C Eye of the Beholder: Government Attempts to Define and Detect "Extremism" 203A Squeezed Between Russia and China. Digital Rights in Central Asia 201A

16:00 EDT

Do we need free speech legislation like we need privacy laws? 203B

17:15 EDT

Freedom Online Coalition Open Forum 204C

08:00 EDT

A Human Rights Approach to Regulating User-Generated Content Online: Preview of the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report to the Human Rights Council 206C

09:00 EDT

The Global Digital Platform and the Nation State: Roles responsibilities and interactions to optimize human rights in the digital space 206D Data Driven Decency: New, Collaborative Experiments to Diminish Online Hate and Harassment Online 205C Civil Society Under Assault Online: Threats, Opportunities, and Stories From Across the Regions 203B

10:30 EDT

Internet Freedom in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Access Denied or Revived? 200B Social Media Takedowns: Protecting Who? 202B Shooting the messenger: the rise of intermediary liability around the world 204B

12:00 EDT

This Panel May Contain Sensitive Content: Automated Filtering and the Future of Free Expression Online 201B

14:30 EDT

Reforming Intermediary Responsibility: Testing a Human Rights Centred Framework Beyond the Liability and Immunity Divide 201C

16:00 EDT

Building resilience: Creative responses to internet censorship + shutdowns 200A Digital Landscapes of Trans Activism in Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Threats, Opportunities and Resistance 204C

17:15 EDT

The Invisible Censorship: Crippling the Internet Infrastructure 205B

09:00 EDT

How does the Kremlin manipulate the Russian IT industry to exert control over the internet 203A

10:30 EDT

Digital sovereignty in Russia. 5 years after ITU 203B Policing the Internet, or Promoting Digital Rights: World Intermediary Liability Developments 2018 205B

14:30 EDT

Could new laws designed to protect us online be harming activism and innovation? 204C

16:00 EDT

Global Perspectives on Fighting Social Media Censorship 200B

18:20 EDT

RightsCon Toronto Closing Ceremonies 206C