Designing online safety risk assessments, Germany's mod collective and digital ID funding

Hello and welcome to Everything in Moderation, your speech governance and content moderation week-in-review. It's written by me, Ben Whitelaw and supported by members like you.

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Here's everything  you need to know from the last week — BW

Policies

New and emerging internet policy and online speech regulation

Ofcom, the UK's intended online speech regulator, has set out how it intends to approach the risk assessments that platforms will be required to submit as part of the Online Safety Bill. In a four-page discussion paper, it outlined a four-step assessment process and noted it was working with other legal jurisdictions to "work towards international coherence around the novel regulatory approach that is risk assessments".

Stanford's Daphne Keller has given it a read and comes to the conclusion that "the UK is continuing on its course toward two opposite and irreconcilable legal frameworks for platforms." A formal consultation process will begin once (if?) the Bill is passed.