TILT seminar: Prof. Julia Hörnle

Prof. Julia Hörnle will discuss her recent co-authored work "The Role of Social Media Companies in the Regulation of Online Hate Speech". This book chapter is about online hate speech propagated via platforms operated by social media companies (SMCs). It examines the options open to states in forcing SMCs to take responsibility for the hateful content that appears on their sites. It examines the technological and legal context for imposing legal obligations on SMCs, and analyses initiatives in Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union and elsewhere. It argues that while SMCs can play a role in controlling online hate speech, there are limitations to what they can achieve.

Hornle J, Bakalis C ( 2021 ) . The Role of Social Media Companies in the Regulation of Online Hate Speech . Studies in Law, Politics and Society vol. 85 , 75 - 100 .

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Speaker: Julia Hörnle

Professor Julia Hörnle joined Queen Mary University of London in 2000 as Professor of Internet Law. She focuses on internet regulation, online consumer protection, jurisdiction and online dispute resolution. She teaches on the London LLM and is the Director of Taught Programmes at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in the School of Law. She is also the managing editor of IJLIT(OUP), the leading UK journal in the computer & communications law field.  Among her many publications,  the most recent is her book The Jurisdictional Challange of internet regulation (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Host: Bo Zhao