Description
Total length of the course: <1 hour
From the laissez-faire early days of terms-of-service-as-policy to the post-Cambridge Analytica techlash, platform governance has undergone a fundamental shift — and is still being rewritten. This course traces how platforms accumulated gatekeeping, leveraging, and information exploitation power through network effects, data accumulation, and market integration, and why self-regulation, safe harbour protections, and a focus on consumer rather than user harm left those powers largely unchecked. Spanning the evolution from US Section 230 permissiveness to the EU's GDPR and Digital Services Act, it asks what effective oversight requires — and whether regulatory convergence across a fragmented global landscape is both possible and desirable.