Early Regulation of Social Media Liability Issues in the United States of America and the European Union

Gosztonyi, Gergely (2021) Early Regulation of Social Media Liability Issues in the United States of America and the European Union. JOGTÖRTÉNETI SZEMLE, 19 (Spec.). pp. 21-26. ISSN 0237-7284

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Abstract

The stakes for the internet have been rising since the mid-2000s: “The debate on platform regulation picks up in 2014. First, with the fall-out from the Facebook/WhatsApp deal,1 which kick-started a public debate on mergers and acquisitions by digital platforms. Then in 2018, the Cambridge Analytica scandal2 ramps up the volume of the debate on privacy by large platforms and provides the political lever for starting to design regulatory frameworks for the big digital platforms, at least in Europe.”3 As a result, regulation of the internet (and within it, the platform providers that underpin social media) now seems more realistic than ever before. This paper examines how the United States of America and the European Union have attempted to regulate new media’s liability issues-, and how the codifi cation processes set up two diff erent types of liability regimes twenty to twentyfive years ago.

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