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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom
Contributor:
Schlesinger, Philip
Published:
Wiley, 2022
Published in:
Policy & Internet, 14 (2022) 1, Seite 47-62
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1002/poi3.288
ISSN:
1944-2866
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractIn 2020, a new platform‐regulatory model was initiated in the United Kingdom. The main focus of this article is on the development of the Digital Regulators Cooperation Forum (DRCF), set up to regulate the continually changing challenges posed by major platforms. The British model has drawn on UK competition regulation, collegial governance of international banking, and international ‘agile’ regulation debates. The backdrop to this ‘neo‐regulatory' development has been Brexit (the UK's withdrawal from the European Union). In late 2021, for the first time, the DRCF became a serious focus of parliamentary scrutiny, with recommendations for reform. Assessment of its effectiveness now largely awaits the enactment of statutory powers by the UK Parliament regarding first, ‘online harms’, and second, the use of pro‐competitive regulation in digital markets. Whether the DRCF's model will have exemplary appeal beyond the United Kingdom is an open question.