Niklas Eder

#digitalregulation #risk #fundamentalrights #dsa | Filipe Brito Bastos Very much looking forward to today's PEARL Talk with Niklas Eder! On the menu, we'll have his exceptional paper, "Making Systemic Risk Assessments Work: How the DSA Creates a Virtuous L...

Excited to be presenting my work on risk assessments today at the NOVA Platform for European Administrative and Regulatory Law (PEARL). Join us!

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Streitbeilegung für Online-Plattformen: "Wie Gerichtsverfahren, nur komplett digital" Nach dem DSA sollen außergerichtliche Stellen Streit zwischen Plattformen und Nutzern schlichten. User Rights ist die erste dieser Stellen. Gründer Niklas Eder und Raphael Kneer ziehen Bilanz.

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Thanks for the conversation, Denise Dahmen.

ODS does not replace state judicial proceedings; it complements them. At User Rights, we are developing what we believe is the most effective model to do precisely that: providing thorough legal review, grounded in fundamental rights, in a swift and accessible manner.

Rights are meaningless if they are not enforceable—or if enforcement mechanisms, such as court proceedings, are too burdensome and costly to be effectively accessible for 99.9% of individuals affected by content moderation.

Out-of-court dispute settlement (ODS) is sometimes criticized as a non-state remedy that does not easily align with traditional notions of the rule of law.

In a recent interview with beck-aktuell, I argue that ODS actually addresses systemic failures in rights-based regulation, such as the #DSA.

Thanks Domingos! will do!

And—by the way—we’re hiring!

Looking for case reviewers, marketing, and social media support. Feel free to reach out.

The goal now is to prove that this ambitious model can work—and to help set high standards for the emerging landscape.

Join me on the journey.
I’ll be posting updates here about what we do, how we do it, and why it matters.

I believe we also have the most ambitious vision: combining fundamental rights-based review with an efficient, scalable model.

We’ve built a product that blends tech and human review, and we keep refining our approach with input from our academic advisory board.
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We’ve been the first to work with Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. The first to have data exchange in place with these platforms. And the first to issue decisions—several hundred so far. And the first whose decisions have actually been implemented.

We founded the first ODS body focused specifically on social media - User Rights www.user-rights.org/en. We got certified last August and have been resolving disputes since—it’s been quite a ride.

Art. 21 of the DSA allows for the creation of out-of-court dispute settlement bodies for social media.

Anyone in the EU can appeal to these bodies to challenge content moderation decisions by platforms.

Packing up again. I’ve decided to resign from my position in Oxford to focus 100% on User Rights.

Grateful for the opportunities Oxford gave me — and I’ll always stay closely connected to academia.

Now, full steam ahead: let’s help turn Art. 21 of the DSA into something meaningful.

Expert insights: Fundamental rights in DSA dispute resolution procedures - DSA Observatory By John Albert, DSA Observatory Despite claims that it is “institutionalizing censorship,” the DSA is designed to protect fundamental rights, including freedom of expression. One key example is its ...

Under the DSA, EU users have new legally enshrined pathways to contest platforms' moderation decisions.

But how should new out-of-court dispute settlement (ODS) bodies apply fundamental rights in their decision-making?

Insights from our expert workshop 👇

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