The International Law of Content Governance
Edoardo Celeste, Nicola Palladino, Dennis Redeker, Kinfe Yilma · 2023
Abstract This chapter considers the extent to which international law offers guidance to the governance of digital platforms. Recent years have seen a growing attention in the potential of international law in offering normative guidance to address human rights concerns in content governance. The chapter considers whether the recent turn to international law for content governance standards is a worthwhile exercise. It finds that, beset by a host of design and structural constraints, international law does not offer meaningful normative guidance to the governance of and in digital platforms. The chapter then highlights how emergent standards are moving past the regulatory limits of international law.