Governing Online Speech: Is the Online Safety Bill the Answer?

Governing Online Speech: Is the Online Safety Bill the Answer?

Tony Stower is an experienced public servant and is currently Principal, Online Safety Policy at Ofcom.

Maeve Walsh is a policy and government relations consultant with expertise in digital and health policy. A former civil servant with 17 years' experience in Whitehall, she has been an Associate with Carnegie UK since 2018 and is an advocate for legislation to prevent online harms.

Ruth Smeeth (Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent) is a British Labour Party politician who was the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2015 until 2019. Since 2022 she has been a member of the House of Lords. In June 2020, she became chief executive of Index on Censorship, an organisation which campaigns for freedom of speech.

Edina Harbinja is Reader in Media/Privacy Law at Aston University. Her principal areas of research and teaching are related to the legal issues surrounding the internet and emerging technologies. She is a member of the Advisory Council at Open Rights Group, which aims to protect the digital rights of people in the UK, including privacy and free speech online.

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