The first formal definition of information platforms
The first formal definition of information platforms
Online platforms eventually attracted the regulators’ attention, admittedly long after their invention and development by large, multinational private actors. For the moment the regulator views them not as competitors to the state but rather as a new field of human activity (one that has already been undertaken and thus freely chosen by the creators of the platforms). Usefully, however, the newly formed regulations have provided us with the first formal definition of what we can consider to be information platforms: ‘service providers that store and disseminate information at the request of their users’ (article 3, point (i) of the Digital Services Act). This bland definition, obviously skewed towards the private sector, will have to do for now.
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