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Centre for Digital Law

The Global Governance of Social Media Platforms: A Legal Pluralism Approach

Project Information

This research project examines the complex landscape of social media content regulation and platform governance in our increasingly interconnected world. The study focuses on how major powers like the EU, US, and China shape global platform governance through different regulatory approaches and mechanisms, including trade agreements and domestic legislation. The project specifically explores how these dominant approaches impact other nations, such as Australia, the UK, and Singapore. The research aims to analyze how different jurisdictions balance competing values such as free speech, privacy, and national security in content regulation. It examines the intersection of domestic and international law, private and public law, through the lens of legal pluralism. The goal is to develop a more inclusive framework for global platform governance that respects diverse legal traditions and cultural values, rather than simply reflecting the approaches of major powers.

Events

The 9th Annual Conference of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) was held at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan from August 15 to 16, 2024. The conference was held collaboratively by NTHU, Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law (SMU Law), and the American Society of International Law (ASIL)’s International Law & Technology Interest Group.

The 2024 conference focuses on the interplay between international law and comparative law in the context of data governance in the Asia-Pacific region. We invite original, unpublished abstracts including but not limited to these topics:

  • Laws and policies of data collection, storage, sharing, and analysis and their implications.
  • The intricate balance of data protection, privacy, free speech, reputation, and platform governance within domestic legal frameworks.
  • Implications of international trade and/or human rights agreements on domestic realms of privacy, data protection, content moderation, platform governance, and AI governance.
  • Data localization strategies and laws.
  • Regulatory approaches on harmful online content, hate speech, and mis/disinformation.
  • Comparative insights into data governance models across Asia-Pacific nations.
  • Other relevant discussions at the intersection of constitutional and administrative law, international or transnational law, comparative law, and the evolving landscape of data governance.