The Ukrainian government recently asked the international standards body ICANN to target Russia’s access to the Internet by revoking specific country-code top-level domains operated from within Russia, arranging the revocation of SSL certificates issued within those domains, and shutting down a subset of root servers located in Russia – ICANN refused to do so. Why?

This panel will explore the “neutrality” of the Internet and examine the case for cybersecurity “best practices” in an age of modern warfare, and dive deeper into the role of “Big Tech” in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. We will address questions such as: what role should organizations like the Meta Oversight Board play in removing “harmful” or “fake” content from platforms like Facebook? What should governments do? What does the Russian government’s crackdown on media freedom mean for companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and how is it affecting access to free and fair information online?