- What happens when Facebook takes down your organization’s page?



- If a government asks for the names of people they feel work against the state, what are the implications for activists?



- When decisions are made by private companies, regarding what is said, identity, and the ability to take down posted information – what are the greater implications?



This is a high profile discussion by a well-rounded panel of experts in net freedom and neutrality about freedom of communication and the internet, with a focus on social media. The debate will centralize around the topic of large public communities, including political parties and movements, using platforms run by private companies, and what the repercussions of this are or could be, and how these would be different if run publicly or non-commercially, for better or worse.



Panelists:

Falk Lucke – moderator

Phillip Mueller, Co:laboratory Steering Committee

Thorsten Schilling, Leiter des Fachbereichs Multimedia, Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung

Malte Spitz, Member of the Executive Committee of the German Greens

Sebastian Wallroth, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., Board