What is it about?
Online platforms have become the main moderators and regulators of online speech, a role that has become increasingly contested and better understood in recent years. With greater external scrutiny has come more pressure on governments to regulate. Many proposals have sought to impose quasi-editorial obligations on platforms, an approach this paper argues is wrong-headed. Instead it identifies 'procedural accountability' as an emerging set of approaches and tools that may be used by regulators to achieve proportionate oversight of platforms' online content management without inappropriately prescriptive rules.
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Why is it important?
Many countries are seeking to regulate content on online platforms. This paper provides a framework for them to identify and assess different options for doing so.
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This page is a summary of: From editorial obligation to procedural accountability: policy approaches to online content in the era of information intermediaries, Journal of Cyber Policy, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23738871.2018.1519030.
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