Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Honorary Kings Counsel
Regents Professor
Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society
Faculty Director, Human Rights Center
Professor, Queen's University of Belfast, School of Law, Northern Ireland
Prof. Ní Aoláin Quoted in The Atlantic About Legal Complexities of Governmental Pressure on Tech Companies to Moderate ‘Extremist’ Online Content
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, was quoted in The Atlantic regarding the legal complexities arising from governmental pressure on tech companies to suppress violent and ‘extremist’ content from their online platforms. “The danger is that governments will often get the balance wrong,” said Ní Aoláin. “But we actually have the methods and means to challenge governments when they do so. But private entities? We don’t have the legal processes.”