Platforms

The power of large internet companies to mediate and shape public conversation has placed them at the center of multiple legal controversies around the internet. The dilemmas of content moderation, the ability to impose criteria beyond the platforms’ own borders, the emergence of algorithmic content-curation and recommendation systems, and phenomena such as the viralization of false content have been some of the issues in which the large internet platforms have played a central role.
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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 …