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Smart(er) Internet Regulation Through Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Winston J. Maxwell

Institutional alternatives for regulating access to internet content

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Categories of institutional options

This chapter will focus on the institutional alternatives that can be considered when imposing measures on technical intermediaries.

There exist four main categories of institutional frameworks for regulating access to internet content.

  • General liability or property rules enforced by the courts (court regulation);
  • Detailed regulatory rules developed and enforced by an administrative or regulatory body (administrative regulation);
  • Self-regulatory regimes, which can involve unilateral regulation by each firm through individual terms of use (unilateral self-regulation), and regulation through collective codes of conduct (multilateral self-regulation);
  • Co-regulatory regimes, where the government delegates some regulatory functions to the regulated enterprise, which the regulated enterprise conducts under the government’s supervision.

These four institutional frameworks often coexist with and complement each other. Indeed the first framework, general liabilit...

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