A Comparative Law approach to the regulation of social networking platforms

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Vicente Moret Millás

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Social networking platforms have brought tremendous benefits in multiple aspects. However, they also open the door to new threatens to democracies and fundamental rights, such as cybercrimes, disinformation, content censorship or mass surveillance. In the following pages we will analyse some of the most relevant regulatory approaches adopted worldwide, in order to cope with this paradigm shift. Finally, we will briefly mention the main characteristics of the Proposal for the Digital Services Act: a new Regulation which, in the following years, will presumably transform the regulation guidelines of social platforms in the Europe Union, and in the rest of the world.

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Platforms, social networks, democracy, free speech, censorship, China, United States, European Union, information society services, Digital Services Act

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A Comparative Law approach to the regulation of social networking platforms. (2022). Journal of the Cortes Generales, 112, 287-316. https://doi.org/10.33426/rcg/2022/112/1664

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