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Technology in the Securities Industry -- Promoting Innovation Without Compromising Investor Protection
No full textThis lecture will focus on the proliferation of fintech, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies as observed in the securities industry. Commissioner Seidt will discuss how digital assets, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic investing platforms have transformed investing in the modern age. While these new technologies deliver many benefits and have the potential to expand market access and reduce costs, these technologies can be misused to exploit unsophisticated and vulnerable investors. Commissioner Seidt will highlight how these technologies fit into recent policy proposals and how they are being approached in state and federal examination and enforcement initiatives. At the conclusion of the lecture, the audience will be invited to share views on whether and how regulatory policies should be flexed at the state or federal level to promote technological innovation without compromising market integrity and oversight. Speaker Biography
Andrea Seidt is the Ohio Securities Commissioner with the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Securities. The division has administrative, civil, and criminal authority to prosecute violations of the Ohio Securities Act and oversees one of the country’s largest securities licensee populations with more than 225,000 registered investment firms and professionals. Seidt actively represents the Division and investors throughout the state of Ohio through her service with the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). Seidt is former President of NASAA and is currently serving her second term on NASAA’s Board of Directors, where she has focused on policies related to investment adviser and broker-dealer regulation and state enforcement involving exempt and unregistered offerings. Seidt works closely with her federal peers at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), having served on FINRA’s CRD/IARD Steering Committee and the SEC’s Small Business Advisory Committee. Prior to her appointment as Commissioner in 2008, Seidt worked at the Jones Day law firm and also served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Office of the Ohio Attorney General. Seidt received both her undergraduate and law degrees from The Ohio State University
The Future of the Christchurch Call to Action: How to Build Multistakeholder Initiatives to Address Content Moderation Challenges
Get PDFThis article explores the challenges the New Zealand Government faced after the events in Christchurch on 15 March 2019, where a violent gunman killed 51 people and live-streamed his attack on social media. The video was viewed millions of times in the days following, even as the tech companies took extraordinary efforts to reduce its virality. To find a long-term solution that ended the proliferation of this violent content while protecting human rights, the New Zealand Government decided to take a non-regulatory approach that worked alongside tech companies and civil society. The result was the creation of the Christchurch Call to Action, a multistakeholder initiative where governments and online platforms, working with civil society, committed to 25 goals to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content while protecting a free, open, and secure internet. This article argues that the creation of an multistakeholder initiative was not only the right option for the New Zealand Government in the aftermath of Christchurch shooting, but that multistakeholderism is the best approach for addressing all issues related to the governance of user-generated content online. The problems related to the proliferation of harmful content online cannot be solved through government regulation, and tech companies cannot, and should not, set the rules alone. Therefore, to find a solution, governments and companies must work with like-minded actors who uphold human rights principles, and meaningfully engage with civil society, technical experts, academia, and users. These solutions should be consensus-based and build in accountability mechanisms for both governments and companies. This article argues that solutions proposed addressing terrorist content could serve as a guide for other types of user-generated content where definitions remain contentious
19-2. Yugoslavia: Death of A Nation -- Part II: Road to War
No full textThe Death of Yugoslavia (Serbian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian: Smrt Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Смртта на Југославија, Smrtta na Jugoslavija), later retitled into Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation in an updated and revised edition, is a six part BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. The book and film cover the collapse of the former Yugoslavia from three decades ago. Notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, the leader of Serb nationalism, then President of Serbia, through the secession of Slovenia and Croatia, to the war in Bosnia. Film footage does not extend as far as the Kosovo crisis or the secession of Montenegro. —————— Part 2: The Road to War In April 1990, Croatia holds its first free parliamentary election. Ethnic Serbs in Croatia feel threatened by the nationalist tone of Croatia’s newly elected President Franjo Tuđman and they begin a Log Revolution in August 1990. On 19 May 1991, Croatia holds an independence referendum, which is approved by a wide majority. The Battle of Vukovar of August 1991 is the first major battle in the Croatian War of Independence. (abstract from Simon Gros\u27s Vimeo page
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