These companies govern our digital environment, but they are also subject to pressure from governments and other powerful actors to censor and control the flow of information online. As governments around the world grapple with how to regulate digital media platforms, it’s clear that big changes are coming. We are now at a constitutional moment – an opportunity to rethink the basic rules of how the Internet is governed. Can we build a vibrant, diverse, and flourishing internet that can promote fundamental human rights? I argue that, if we care about the future of our shared social spaces, we need a new constitutionalism: real limits on how power is exercised online.

• In his presentation Nicolas Suzor will refer to his book "Lawless – the secret rules that govern our digital lives"

• Read more about Nicolas Suzor, Queensland University of Technology School of Law and Digital Media Research Centre

• Twitter: @nicsuzor