Governing Online Speech: Is the Online Safety Bill the Answer?

<p><strong>Tony Stower </strong>is an experienced public servant and is currently Principal, Online Safety Policy at Ofcom.<br /><br /><strong>Maeve Walsh</strong> is a policy and government relations consultant with expertise in digital and health policy. A former civil servant with 17 years' experience in Whitehall, she has been an Associate with Carnegie UK since 2018 and is an advocate for legislation to prevent online harms.<br /><br /><strong>Ruth Smeeth</strong> (Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent) is a British Labour Party politician who was the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North from 2015 until 2019. Since 2022 she has been a member of the House of Lords. In June 2020, she became chief executive of Index on Censorship, an organisation which campaigns for freedom of speech.<br /><br /><strong>Edina Harbinja</strong> is Reader in Media/Privacy Law at Aston University. Her principal areas of research and teaching are related to the legal issues surrounding the internet and emerging technologies. She is a member of the Advisory Council at Open Rights Group, which aims to protect the digital rights of people in the UK, including privacy and free speech online.</p>