Interview with Jan Gerlach
“We tend to communicate more and more on the internet and on platforms – whether WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook. If we make these platforms liable and if we demand that they control communication and limit some content, we lose not only the layer of democratic but also the layer of judiciary control.” said Jan Gerlach (Senior Public Policy Manager, Wikimedia Foundation) for the newspaper Večer.
The interview is available in Slovene on this website. Tilen Zonta translated the article in English.
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