Co‐Producing Security: Platform Content Moderation and European Security Integration
分析了欧盟两项反恐内容审核举措(互联网转介单位和TERREG法规)的法律与技术机制,揭示其如何共同生产公私领域的安全决策,对研究平台治理与欧洲安全整合的学者有参考价值。
Abstract The European Union (EU) seeks to play a leading role in steering the private work of online content moderation, as demonstrated by numerous policy and legislative initiatives in the domain. Two initiatives, in particular, are shaping terrorist content moderation: the creation of a EU Internet Referral Unit and the adoption of a Regulation on preventing the online dissemination of terrorist content (TERREG). This article analyses these initiatives and their practical effects. In particular, it unpacks the legal and technological mechanisms at the core of EU regulation in the realm of online terrorist content moderation, and how they co‐produce security decisions across public and private spheres. Based on interviews, fieldwork observations and document analysis, we show how processes of referral and removal, and processes of flagging and filtering are key to EU‐directed content moderation. In conclusion, we reflect on content moderation as a novel form of European security integration.