This document discusses regulation of social media platforms like Facebook. It notes there is an ethical dilemma around social media existing as a public domain controlled by private companies through contextual rules and architecture. It argues that the law often fails to properly regulate digital spaces due to a misunderstanding of technology and an overreliance on contracts. The document calls for a new approach to regulation to address this imbalance of control between public and private interests in the digital world.

1. Regulation by Facebook
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. Social media as public domain

3. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

4. Do the Police
Troll Facebook?

5. Evidence: Two cultures

6. Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world

7. Why the law
fails?

8. Misunderstanding technology

9. A love of contract

10. A paranoid
Proposal

11. THANKS!

12. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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