Governmental Regulation Relinquishment and Devolution of Normative Power to Platforms: Co-Regulation and the Regulatory Circle
摘要
The chapter notes the enormous legal power of digital platforms, which is exercised through instruments of private autonomy, such as unilaterally prepared terms and conditions of service and codes of conduct. This power is matched by regulatory and supervisory interventions on the part of the EU, which set up a ‘regulatory circle’ between private and public law.