Locking down Debate?
Have the convulsions of Covid-19 opened to the door to a creeping censoriousness, surveillance and authoritarianism? Are big tech companies shutting down debate and stoking conspiracy theories by excluding controversial voices, and is the technology for coronavirus surveillance and the social measures to combat it as useful as it seems? Where do we draw the line between civility and censorship, and between necessary surveillance and snooping? Are we sleepwalking into the militarisation of our streets?
Barbora Bukovská
Barbora Bukovská is a human rights attorney and activist, known for her work on racial discrimination of Romani people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 2009, she has been a Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, an international free speech organisation.
David Rose
David Rose is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for publications including the Guardian, the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Mail on Sunday and Vanity Fair. His seven books include Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South, and Guantanamo: America’s War on Human Rights.
Martin Williams
Martin Williams is the investigations editor at openDemocracy. Previously he was Specialist Producer at Channel 4 News. Martin is the author of Parliament Ltd.
Siarhei Satsuk
Siarhei Satsuk is Editor of the online newspaper Yezhednevnik and is well known for his investigative reporting on Belarus’ healthcare system. For the last three years Satsuk has focused on uncovering corruption inside the Ministry of Health in Belarus.
- 18 November 2020 13.00–14.15 Time zone: GMT
Time zone: GMT
Location: Main Stage - Online (via Hopin)
This event will be recorded