Regulating online content Join the policy debate, your future may depend on it
I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. – Arthur C. Clarke
The question is not if we should regulate online content. Content is already regulated to a lesser to greater extent, mainly lesser, but regulated non the less.
The open question then remains: is how do we as societies find the right balance between the various competing interests surrounding online content?
How best to regulate online content?
Truth be told I don’t have an answer. Does anyone?
How best to regulate online content?
This is a important yet vexing question that has become all that more important in the age of the platform-economy, data-economy, internet of things, the fourth industrial revolution or what ever other term is used to describe this fast paced era of technological and creative disputation. However, one thing I do know is that what is called for is careful thinking and not knee-jerk reactions to regulation.
Regulations, what ever shape they may take must have as their objective maximizing the over all benefits to society in the long run.
The World Economic Forum has published an interesting article on the question of regulating online content. In my view it is a great contribution to the debate. Spoiler alert: it does not answer the question of how best to regulate online content? Rather it invites the reader to think and to participate in the policy debate. The article can be found here.
