A Study Of Legal Regulation Under The Global Expansion Of Digital Platforms

The Internet has developed over the decades,building a globalised virtual space that breaks through the limits of time and space.Many wonderful visions of the Internet age have been put forward,but they have been shattered one by one in the course of practice.The realisation of the Internet as we know it is made up of a world-wide sea of data lines,digitally centralised skyscrapers and the equivalent of a city of mega data centres.Its economic basis is capital and its material basis is advanced technology.Based on the monopoly of technology and the control of a huge number of users,the territory of large digital platforms such as Google,Facebook and Amazon on the Internet is now expanding,even beyond the traditional national units to become a centralised presence.In the current environment of rapid global expansion of large digital platforms,it is of great importance to explore the legal measures to regulate them.This paper analyses the cases of countermeasures against the expansion of digital platforms in different countries around the world and finds that although legislative measures such as anti-monopoly have been commonly adopted globally to deal with the expansion of digital platforms,this does not address the root of the problem.Because these mediums essentially act as essential information infrastructures(essentail facility doctrine)on a global scale,antitrust on an economic level alone cannot solve the problem completely.Through the analysis of case studies and the summary of countermeasure experiences,and the integration of the experiences of different countries and regions,this paper finally proposes a reflective legal regulation.With reference to the concept of "essential infrastructure" in antitrust law,the essential facilities principle stipulates that the owner of an "essential" or "bottleneck" facility must make it available to all market participants and set reasonable prices.The principle of essential infrastructure provides that the owner of an ’essential’ or ’bottleneck’ facility must make it available to all market participants and set reasonable prices.The expansion of digital platforms on the Internet and the problems they pose can therefore be addressed along these lines,based on the recognition of these digital platforms as international information infrastructures,through public and soft international law(non-coercive such as conventions or declarations)to form a maximum international communications order and influence domestic law,involving them in the regulation of digital platform companies and promoting the protection of personal information and the rights related to expression.The protection of personal information and expression rights,and the promotion of social and economic development.Ultimately,a good information order will be established through legal regulation,making digital platforms a truly global public good and realising a new world communication order in the Internet environment on a global scale.