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For years, the United Nations system has shaped the global discussion of how the internet should be governed. Through multilateral spaces (such as the ITU) and multi-stakeholder spaces like the Internet Governance Forum, the global standard-setting system has always played a preponderant role over the principles that guide states when regulating the flow of information online.
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  • What we can and cannot expect from the exercise of public functions by private platforms

    Matías González Mama, Nicolás Zara, Agustina Del Campo, Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte
    CELE Research Paper No. 75

    Platforms have been increasingly assuming functions that do not differ much in nature from those performed by states: rule-making, adjudication, and enforcement authority over users' expressions and conduct. What began as voluntary self-regulation, enabled by legal architectures such as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the EU's e-Commerce Directive, has evolved into a model of outsourced governance in which states mandate private, profit-seeking actors to perform quasi-public functions, stripped of …