States are increasingly delegating their regulatory functions to social media platforms to censor information, and the risk of a state retreat from the regulatory space has been extensively discussed. However, little is said about what this means when the state becomes a user of the same platform from which it retreats as a regulator—and more importantly relies on its user capacity to configure and repress public opinion. This article asks how we go about contextualizing the evolving nature of state violation of rights and freedoms on social media platforms and the state’s dereliction of duty? It argues that the changing dynamic represents a process by which power reproduces itself by linking state and corporate interests to the detriment of the people. Using perspectives from business and human rights and the Afro-centric conception of human rights, it presents an alternative reading of state duty for digital wrongdoing.

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用户状态：平台化危害时代对国家角色和义务的另一种解读

各国越来越多地将其监管职能委托给社交媒体平台来审查信息，人们广泛讨论了国家退出监管空间的风险。然而，当国家成为其作为监管者退出的同一平台的用户时，这意味着什么？更重要的是，它依赖于其用户配置和压制公众舆论的能力，这意味着什么，却鲜有提及。本文询问我们如何着手将国家在社交媒体平台上侵犯权利和自由以及国家失职的不断演变的性质背景化？它认为，不断变化的动力代表了一个权力通过将国家和企业利益联系起来而损害人民利益的自我复制过程。