With the proliferation of information and communication technologies come needs for new or adjusted regulation in the various legal fields. The predominant area affected by new regulation has been the right to privacy and personal data protection. Recently, another area of law has gained increasing importance in light of new regulatory attempts: the freedom of expression. Various efforts to regulate free expression were adopted by the social network sites and other online platforms. At the same time, the obligation to balance users‘ rights traditionally held by states, has now shifted to privately owned Internet intermediaries. Can setting the new rules and shifting liability and responsibility to act to the social network sides provide for an adequate regulatory approach to this fundamental freedom? This panel aims to investigate whether the regulatory paradoxes of free expression could be addressed through a similar approach present in the field of data protection.