Optimising Industry-led Regulation for the Digital Platforms Era

该项目旨在调查如何通过共同监管有效防止数字平台造成的损害，在共同监管中，行业制定由监管机构执行的规则。“共同监管”在更广泛的通信领域得到了广泛应用，但长期以来仍然缺乏理论性，其有效性也从未得到充分的审查。与此同时，虚假信息和暴力内容等危害在规模和影响上都在扩大。这项研究将为优化当代澳大利亚通信环境中的共同监管提供证据基础，使寻求实现公共政策目标的监管机构、经历在线伤害的消费者以及平台本身受益，否则他们可能会受到迟钝的监管工具的影响。

This project aims to investigate how harms caused by digital platforms can be effectively prevented through co-regulation where industry develops rules enforced by a regulator. Widely used in the broader communications sector, ‘co-regulation’ remains chronically under-theorised and its effectiveness has never been adequately reviewed. Meanwhile, harms such as disinformation and violent content expand in both scale and impact. This research will provide an evidential base for optimising co-regulation in the contemporary Australian communications environment, benefiting regulators seeking to meet public policy goals; consumers experiencing online harms; and platforms themselves, who might otherwise be subject to blunt regulatory tools.