ABSTRACT

Outpaced by the development of the internet, current regulatory approaches do not protect users from online harms transmitted over online platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. The Draft Online Safety Bill attempts to improve safety online by developing online analogues for responsibility practices, but is limited by a focus on platforms as service providers hosting content. Online safety requires more than safe services, because platforms are more than content hosts. Platforms, in the social interactions they facilitate, establish online spaces that are governed by platform architecture and algorithms. These spaces present online hazards in the ways they curate content and interactions online, establishing environments that enable online harms. Such consequences are a product of the space that enabled them: of unmanaged online hazards. Incorporating platform responsibility for online spaces and their hazards into the Online Safety Bill’s risk assessment duties enables protection from the full extent of online harms.

摘要

与互联网的发展相比，当前的监管方法无法保护用户免受通过 Facebook、Twitter 和 Reddit 等在线平台传播的在线伤害。在线安全法案草案试图通过开发用于责任实践的在线类似物来提高在线安全性，但受限于将平台作为托管内容的服务提供商。在线安全需要的不仅仅是安全的服务，因为平台不仅仅是内容宿主。平台在它们促进的社交互动中，建立了由平台架构和算法管理的在线空间。这些空间以他们在网上策划内容和互动的方式呈现在线危害，从而建立了促成在线危害的环境。这些后果是使它们成为可能的空间的产物：不受管理的在线危害。