The Santa Clara Principles for Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation were one of the first efforts to articulate a standard set of recommendations for how companies should improve the availability of information and procedural protections for users in their content moderation systems. Introduced in 2018 by a small group of civil society and academic actors, the SCP have undergone a year-long review process, the results of which were launched at the Internet Governance Forum in 2021. This session will dig deeper into the goals and ideas behind the SCP: How has this set of voluntary recommendations moved the policy discussion forward, and what are the limits of this kind of tool? How should policymakers look to tools like the SCP when considering regulation of content moderation? Is the transparency and due process frame of the SCP even the right model to pursue in regulation of content moderation?

Keynote will be provided by European Parliament Member Patrick Breyer.