Overview
- Provides a comprehensive typology of different kinds of censorship
- Helps to understand the growing liability mess on the internet
- Examines the historical background of censorship to better understand the problems of today’s internet
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 61)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Censorship history
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- Electronic Commerce Directive
- Digital Services Act
- Digital Markets Act
- Golden Shield
- Internet sovereignty
- Human moderation
- European Court of Human Rights
- ECtHR
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- CJEU
- Censorship
- Censorship typology
- Free speech
- Content regulation
- Internet regulation
- Communication Decency Act
- Artificial intelligence
About this book
For centuries, church and state controlled the content available to the public through political, moral and religious censorship. As technology evolved, the legal and political tools were refined, but the classic censorship system continued until the end of the 20th century. However, the myth of total freedom of communication and a law-free space that had been expected with the advent of the internet was soon challenged. The new rulers of the digital world, tech companies, emerged and gained enormous power over free speech and content management. All this happened alongside cautious regulation attempts on the part of various states, either by granting platforms near-totalimmunity (US) or by setting up new rules that were not fully developed (EU). China has established the Great Firewall and the Golden Shield as a third way.
In the book, particular attention is paid to developments since the 2010s, when Internet-related problems began to multiply. The state’s solutions have mostly pointed in one direction: towards greater control of platforms and the content they host. Similarities can be found in the US debates, the Chinese and Russian positions on internet sovereignty, and the new European digital regulations (DSA-DMA). The book addresses them all.
This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the complexities of social media’s content regulation and moderation practices. It makes a valuable contribution to the field of freedom of expression and the internet, showing that, with different kinds of censorship, this essentially free form of communication has come – almost by default – under legal regulation and the original freedom may have been lost in too many countries in recent years.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. habil Gergely Gosztonyi (PhD) is a Hungarian lawyer and media researcher. Graduated at the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest, now he is teaching at the same place since that time, holding various courses in media law, constitutional law, legal history on BA, MA and Ph.D. level. Among others, one of his research fields is censorship, alternative media and the liability of intermediaries. He is a member of the European Communication Research and Education Association and Community Media Forum Europe. Since 2015 he has been the coach of the Hungarian Team for the yearly Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. Dr. Gosztonyi was also an expert for Council of Europe on report on the draft law "On principles of broadcasting of territorial communities in Ukraine” and on the implementation of community media into the Ukrainian media legislation in 2017 and 2020, and also an expert for the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development Centre, the National Talent Center and the Hungarian National Radio and Television Commission. He obtained his PhD in Media Law. He is an editor of different legal journals. He was awarded with Pro Iurisprudentia Practica, Maria Theresa Medallion, Master Teacher Gold Medal and Senate Medal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Censorship from Plato to Social Media
Book Subtitle: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices
Authors: Gergely Gosztonyi
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46529-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46528-4Published: 26 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46531-4Due: 27 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46529-1Published: 25 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 189
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour