Professor Thomas Riis, Phd, Lld

53 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2024

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Thomas Riis

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law

Abstract

Internet intermediaries’ content moderation raises two major problems. The first relates to the accuracy of the moderation practices, which is an issue on whether the intermediaries over-enforce or under-enforce. The second problem concerns the inherent privatization of justice that results when enforcement of rights is left to a private party. The purpose of the article is to develop a model of ‘rough justice’ for internet intermediaries’ content moderation practices taking into account the obvious fact that such content moderation cannot comply with the degree of justice known from civil procedural  law. There is no reason to believe that internet intermediaries strive to achieve the highest level of justice in their content moderation. As a consequence, the model of rough justice presupposes legislative intervention related to 3 different groups of provisions: 1) Procedural rules, 2) substantive rules, and 3) competences of persons involved in content moderation.

Keywords: Justice, fair trial, intermediary, human right, copyright

Suggested Citation

Riis, Thomas, Professor Thomas Riis, Phd, Lld. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4793671 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4793671

Thomas Riis (Contact Author)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law ( email )

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Studiestrade 6
København S, 2300
Denmark

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