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Censorship from Plato to Social Media
The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 579 kr
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In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filtering, blocking, and hacking replace scissors and black ink? This book argues that only a broader understanding of censorship can effectively protect freedom of expression.For centuries, church and state controlled the content available to the public through political, moral and religious censorship. As technology evolved, the legal and political tools were refined, but the classic censorship system continued until the end of the 20th century. However, the myth of total freedom of communication and a law-free space that had been expected with the advent of the internet was soon challenged. The new rulers of the digital world, tech companies, emerged and gained enormous power over free speech and content management. All this happened alongside cautious regulation attempts on the part of various states, either by granting platforms near-totalimmunity (US) or by setting up new rules that were not fully developed (EU). China has established the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield as a third way.In the book, particular attention is paid to developments since the 2010s, when Internet-related problems began to multiply. The state’s solutions have mostly pointed in one direction: towards greater control of platforms and the content they host. Similarities can be found in the US debates, the Chinese and Russian positions on internet sovereignty, and the new European digital regulations (DSA-DMA). The book addresses them all.This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the complexities of social media’s content regulation and moderation practices. It makes a valuable contribution to the field of freedom of expression and the internet, showing that, with different kinds of censorship, this essentially free form of communication has come – almost by default – under legal regulation and the original freedom may have been lost in too many countries in recent years.
Del 61 - Law, Governance and Technology Series
Censorship from Plato to Social Media
The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
1 579 kr
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In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life.
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2 158 kr
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What is a chilling effect on speech? It’s a phenomenon frequently invoked by courts, regulators, and activists; cited in litigation, policy debates, and public discourse; and relied upon as an explanatory shorthand. Yet – until now – it has never been examined with the rigor it demands.This edited volume is the first work to offer a systematic, interdisciplinary examination of the chilling effect as a core analytical problem. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars and experts in the fields of law, sociology, political science, communications studies and the social sciences, the book directly addresses the conceptual, methodological, and normative dilemmas and paradoxes that have long surrounded the discussion on the silencing of those exercising their freedom of expression.The chapters cover topics such as free speech, surveillance, artistic and academic freedom, digital governance, and self-censorship. The approach pursued involves close engagement with legal doctrine and sociological theory, as well as empirical research, making it possible to move beyond anecdotal claims and toward analytically grounded inquiry. Particular attention is paid to conceptual ambiguity, causal uncertainty, and the perennial difficulty of identifying and assessing indirect forms of deterrence. Rather than offering a single definition or solution, the book probes a central question: how can chilling effects (often anticipatory, invisible, and contested) be meaningfully distinguished from legitimate regulation or ordinary social constraint? To address that question, issues such as evidentiary standards, measurement, cultural polemics, judicial reasoning, and democratic accountability feature prominently throughout the chapters. In addition to general conceptual frameworks, they explore a wide range of regional and contextual perspectives, including case studies from Africa, Asia, and Europe, and transnational governance settings. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars in all fields concerned with human rights and free speech and make a decisive contribution to chilling effect scholarship by transforming a widely invoked concept into a rigorous object of analysis.Chapter "Chilling Effect and Fake News Laws: Lessons from East and Southeast Asia" is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.