The language of digital constitutionalism and the role of national parliaments

Santaniello, Mauro; Palladino, Nicola; Catone, Maria Carmela; Diana, Paolo

doi:10.1177/1748048518757138

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“…If digital media platforms are "the new governors" (Klonick, 2017) of our shared social spaces, there is an ongoing challenge to articulate what rights their users ought to have, and how these rights can be protected. In some ways, online social spaces can be experienced as quasi-public spaces, where the longstanding liberal distinction between public and private spaces is insufficient to adequately understand the relationships and embodied experiences of users (Cohen, 2012;Santaniello, Palladino, Catone, & Diana, 2018). There is no efficient market for terms of service, and platforms wield power so disproportionate that the agency of users to negotiate terms is extremely limited (Suzor, 2010).…”

Section: The Governance Of Platformsmentioning

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Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by Platforms

Suzor

2018

Social Media + Society

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Platforms govern users, and the way that platforms govern matters. In this article, I propose that the legitimacy of governance of users by platforms should be evaluated against the values of the rule of law. In particular, I suggest that we should care deeply about the extent to which private governance is consensual, transparent, equally applied and relatively stable, and fairly enforced. These are the core values of good governance, but are alien to the systems of contract law that currently underpin relationships between platforms and their users. Through an analysis of the contractual Terms of Service of 14 major social media platforms, I show how these values can be applied to evaluate governance, and how poorly platforms perform on these criteria. I argue that the values of the rule of law provide a language to name and work through contested concerns about the relationship between platforms and their users. This is an increasingly urgent task. Finding a way to apply these values to articulate a set of desirable restraints on the exercise of power in the digital age is the key challenge and opportunity of the project of digital constitutionalism.

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Section: The Governance Of Platformsmentioning

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Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by Platforms

Suzor

2018

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“…Além disso, o constitucionalismo societal aparece, isoladamente ou em conjunto com outras teorias, como a principal moldura dos trabalhos dedicados a construir, avançar ou problematizar o conceito de constitucionalismo digital (REDEKER; GILL; GASSER, 2018; PADOVAN; SANTANIELLO, 2018;CELESTE, 2019a;DE GREGORIO, 2022;GOLIA, 2022). As premissas de legitimação de ordens privadas através de arranjos normativos e funcionais organizados fora do Estado informa uma ampla gama de teorias de constitucionalismo digital.…”

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Constitucionalismo Digital: contradições de um conceito impreciso

Pereira

Keller

2022

Rev. Direito Práx.

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Resumo O presente artigo mapeia os usos da expressão constitucionalismo digital, empregada nas discussões recentes de regulação de tecnologias digitais e, em especial, plataformas de Internet. Nosso objetivo principal é indicar as contradições e riscos colocados na dilatação do termo “constitucionalismo” para englobar os fenômenos normativos que hoje correm sob o rótulo. À luz da compreensão do constitucionalismo tradicional como fenômeno político e institucional, são identificadas as teorias que precedem o constitucionalismo digital como formulações contemporâneas que visam explicar as mudanças no funcionamento dos poderes e sistemas normativos que ultrapassam ou sobrepõem o estado-nação e seus limites territoriais (i.e., pluralismo constitucional, constitucionalismo societal e constitucionalismo global). A partir das críticas da literatura a essa matriz teórica, o constitucionalismo digital é problematizado como termo epistemicamente prejudicado pela diversidade de aplicações e pelo potencial de legitimação de concentração de poderes privados.

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“…Primarily, these have focused on privacy rights and freedom of expression (Suzor, 2018). The users who care about how their content is regulated, dissimilar to powerful local governments and lobby groups, do not possess an influence on the platforms they use as well as the platform's policies (Santaniello, 2018). In constitutional theory and law, there is a division between private and public, which becomes problematic when one realizes that regulation is not only the duty of the state (Seifert, 2003).…”

Section: Terms Of Service and Bills Of Rights As An Expression Of Commentioning

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Constitutionalizing Role of Terms of Service of Social Media Platforms and Proposed Social Media User Bills of Rights

Shengelia

2020

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Multiple challenges and risks to democratic values and fundamental human rights emerge from the constitutulization processes of social media platforms. This article submits that more consideration has to be put on how private governance of social media platforms should be transparent, consensual, relatively stable in its application and how it should be enforced fairly. The values presented by the rule of law as well as traditional democratic principles of a sovereign state should inform the debate around contested relationship between the users and social media platforms. Digital constitutionalism is a concept that explains waves of constitutional counteractions as a result of a fast pace development of digital technologies. Digital constitutionalism is regarded as the idea that considers the constitutionalism of the digital society. This article focuses on examining constitutional tone of existing terms of service of a world leading social media platform Facebook and reviews potential value that digital Bills of Rights, intiated by various non-governmental organizations and individuals, may hold in shaping human rights’ compliant governance framework for social media platforms in the years to come. From the terms of service and bills of rights, it is based to show that Facebook is ready to show a peculiar configuration. At present, social media bills of rights and terms of service play the constitutionalizing roles. Nevertheless, it is not the aim of the current author to exhaust the topic, but rather to provide potential answers to the matters examined.

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The language of digital constitutionalism and the role of national parliaments

Cited by 13 publications

References 39 publications

Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by Platforms

Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by Platforms

Constitucionalismo Digital: contradições de um conceito impreciso

Constitutionalizing Role of Terms of Service of Social Media Platforms and Proposed Social Media User Bills of Rights

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