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%0 Journal Article %T The Sanitised Platform %A Griffin, Rachel %J JIPITEC %D 2022 %V 13 %N 1 %@ 2190-3387 %F griffin2022 %X Feminist legal scholar Vicki Schultz argues that US law on sexual harassment has created a “sanitised workplace”, by encouraging employers to suppress any kind of sexual behaviour, while ignoring broader issues around gender equality. This paper employs Schultz’s concept of sanitisation as a frame to critique current trends in European social media regulation, focusing on the 2019 Copyright Directive, 2021 Terrorist Content Regulation and the Digital Services Act proposed in 2020. EU law incentivises the deletion of various broadly-defined types of illegal content, which is also likely to suppress large amounts of legal and harmless content. Evidence of how social media platforms moderate content suggests that this over-enforcement will disproportionately suppress marginalised users and non-mainstream viewpoints, while increasing the influence of platforms’ commercial goals on online communications. Yet at the same time, by focusing primarily on content (i.e. individual posts and uploads) over broader contextual and design factors, European regulation fails to effectively address many social harms associated with major social media platforms. Schultz’s approach not only draws our attention to these failings, but provides theoretical insights as to how private ordering heightens these problems, enforces dominant discourse norms and subordinates online communication to commercial priorities. %L 340 %K content moderation %K digital services act %K platform governance %K social media regulation %U http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-55148 %P 36-51Download
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@Article{griffin2022,
author = "Griffin, Rachel",
title = "The Sanitised Platform",
journal = "JIPITEC",
year = "2022",
volume = "13",
number = "1",
pages = "36--51",
keywords = "content moderation; digital services act; platform governance; social media regulation",
abstract = "Feminist legal scholar Vicki Schultz argues that US law on sexual harassment has created a ``sanitised workplace'', by encouraging employers to suppress any kind of sexual behaviour, while ignoring broader issues around gender equality. This paper employs Schultz's concept of sanitisation as a frame to critique current trends in European social media regulation, focusing on the 2019 Copyright Directive, 2021 Terrorist Content Regulation and the Digital Services Act proposed in 2020. EU law incentivises the deletion of various broadly-defined types of illegal content, which is also likely to suppress large amounts of legal and harmless content. Evidence of how social media platforms moderate content suggests that this over-enforcement will disproportionately suppress marginalised users and non-mainstream viewpoints, while increasing the influence of platforms' commercial goals on online communications. Yet at the same time, by focusing primarily on content (i.e. individual posts and uploads) over broader contextual and design factors, European regulation fails to effectively address many social harms associated with major social media platforms. Schultz's approach not only draws our attention to these failings, but provides theoretical insights as to how private ordering heightens these problems, enforces dominant discourse norms and subordinates online communication to commercial priorities.",
issn = "2190-3387",
url = "http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-55148"
}
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TY - JOUR AU - Griffin, Rachel PY - 2022 DA - 2022// TI - The Sanitised Platform JO - JIPITEC SP - 36 EP - 51 VL - 13 IS - 1 KW - content moderation KW - digital services act KW - platform governance KW - social media regulation AB - Feminist legal scholar Vicki Schultz argues that US law on sexual harassment has created a “sanitised workplace”, by encouraging employers to suppress any kind of sexual behaviour, while ignoring broader issues around gender equality. This paper employs Schultz’s concept of sanitisation as a frame to critique current trends in European social media regulation, focusing on the 2019 Copyright Directive, 2021 Terrorist Content Regulation and the Digital Services Act proposed in 2020. EU law incentivises the deletion of various broadly-defined types of illegal content, which is also likely to suppress large amounts of legal and harmless content. Evidence of how social media platforms moderate content suggests that this over-enforcement will disproportionately suppress marginalised users and non-mainstream viewpoints, while increasing the influence of platforms’ commercial goals on online communications. Yet at the same time, by focusing primarily on content (i.e. individual posts and uploads) over broader contextual and design factors, European regulation fails to effectively address many social harms associated with major social media platforms. Schultz’s approach not only draws our attention to these failings, but provides theoretical insights as to how private ordering heightens these problems, enforces dominant discourse norms and subordinates online communication to commercial priorities. SN - 2190-3387 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-29-55148 ID - griffin2022 ER -Download
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| Bibliographic Citation | Journal of intellectual property, information technology and electronic commerce law 13 (2022) 1 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Sanitised Platform (eng) |
| Author | Rachel Griffin |
| Language | eng |
| Abstract | Feminist legal scholar Vicki Schultz argues that US law on sexual harassment has created a “sanitised workplace”, by encouraging employers to suppress any kind of sexual behaviour, while ignoring broader issues around gender equality. This paper employs Schultz’s concept of sanitisation as a frame to critique current trends in European social media regulation, focusing on the 2019 Copyright Directive, 2021 Terrorist Content Regulation and the Digital Services Act proposed in 2020. EU law incentivises the deletion of various broadly-defined types of illegal content, which is also likely to suppress large amounts of legal and harmless content. Evidence of how social media platforms moderate content suggests that this over-enforcement will disproportionately suppress marginalised users and non-mainstream viewpoints, while increasing the influence of platforms’ commercial goals on online communications. Yet at the same time, by focusing primarily on content (i.e. individual posts and uploads) over broader contextual and design factors, European regulation fails to effectively address many social harms associated with major social media platforms. Schultz’s approach not only draws our attention to these failings, but provides theoretical insights as to how private ordering heightens these problems, enforces dominant discourse norms and subordinates online communication to commercial priorities. |
| Subject | content moderation, digital services act, platform governance, social media regulation |
| DDC | 340 |
| Rights | DPPL |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:0009-29-55148 |
