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Dear all,</div>
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I invite you to join the workshop <i>Beyond the ban? How to regulate platform design to protect minors under the Digital Services Act
</i>next Tuesday, April 21st. Organized by <a href="https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/flodir-florence-observatory-on-digital-regulation/" title="https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/flodir-florence-observatory-on-digital-regulation/">
The Florence Observatory on Digital Regulation (FLODIR)</a>, the event will discuss the risks and challenges of the new regulatory wave on social media bans for minors. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can register here</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/events/?id=586566" id="OWAd8e792b0-b2c0-ace5-8aa1-90ef56b51548" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/events/?id=586566">https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/events/?id=586566</a></span></div>
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There will be two sessions with highly compelling perspectives.</div>
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The <b>first panel</b> will be moderated by <span style="font-weight: 700;">Prof. Elda Brogi</span>, Deputy Director of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom of the European University Institute (EUI), and will focus on the evidence of harm to minors
and how social media bans are being approached across Europe and beyond.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Prof. Giovanna Mascheroni</span>, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, will open the session to provide the general sociological context on the harms of social media to minors.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Prof. Amanda Third</span>, Western Sydney University, will explain how the ban is perceived and implemented in Australia, the first Western nation to adopt such a comprehensive national policy.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Marta Vega Bayo</span>, Head of Unit for Platforms and Data within the Spanish Government's Directorate General for Digital Services, will discuss the strategies of Spain, which is among the most determined
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">countries </span>to implement the ban.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Katarzyna Szymielewicz</span>, President of the NGO Panoptykon Foundation, will discuss the limits and opportunities the DSA offers in this context from a human rights advocacy perspective.</div>
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Finally, <span style="font-weight: 700;">Greta Faieta</span>, DSA Enforcement team, will discuss the European Commission's perspective on this issue.</div>
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The <b>second panel</b> will be moderated by the President of the Italian Media Authority (AGCOM),
<span style="font-weight: 700;">Giacomo Lasorella</span>. It will focus on the strategies and enforcement challenges faced by media authorities.</div>
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It will start with a contribution from <span style="font-weight: 700;">Peter Chapman</span>, Knight-Georgetown Institute, who will discuss the recent U.S. verdict finding Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately designing addictive products that harmed young
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There will be also several key media authorities offering their perspectives:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Jeremy Godfrey</span>, Coimisiún na Meán (CNAM), Ireland</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Frederic Bokobza</span>, ARCOM, France</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Susanne Lackner</span>, KommAustria, Austria</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Michael Terhörst</span>, German Federal Office for the Enforcement of Children's Rights in Digital Services (KidD), Germany</div>
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The event is hybrid, and you can participate either in person or online.</div>
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You can register here: <a href="https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/events/?id=586566" id="OWA8737177e-30af-5211-04b1-b0bfd810d88b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/events/?id=586566">
https://digitalsociety.eui.eu/events/?id=586566</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(12, 100, 192);"><b>Urbano Reviglio</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Research Associate</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom / Robert Schuman Centre</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Villa Schifanoia - Via Boccaccio 121, 50133 Firenze (FI), Italy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Via dei Roccettini 9, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy</span></p>
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