Responsibility
| Autor | Nicolo Zingales |
| Páginas | 273-275 |
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Responsibility
79 Responsibility
Nicolo Zingales
The concept of responsibility refers, in its simplest form, to a duty
to undertake a particular action or set of actions. Such duty can
be legal, but also moral, social or ethical. If it is legally enforceable,
failing to fulfill the duty gives rise to liability. However, even where
that enforcement is not available, failing to fulfil one´s responsibility
can give rise to significant consequences from a legal, social, and
even financial standpoint. For instance, a boycott of advertisers
(a.k.a. ‘adpocalypse’) took place in 2016 due to an alleged failure in
YouTube´s responsibility to prevent ads from being associated with
terrorist content. A similar boycott, known as “Stope Hate for Profit”,
occurred in 2020 due to Facebook´s failure to take responsibility
for the incitement to violence against protesters fighting for racial
justice in America in the wake of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,
Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks and many others.
Platform responsibility is the concept that brought together a
variety of stakeholders leading to the establishment of the DCPR
in 2014. As noted in the DCPR Outcome book in 2017, facing the
proliferation of private ordering regimes in online platforms,
stakeholders began to interrogate themselves about conceptual
issues concerning the moral, social, and human rights responsibility
of the private entities that set up such regimes. The use of this
notion of “responsibility” has not gone unnoticed, having been
captured for example by the special report prepared by UNESCO
in 2014, the study on self-regulation of the Institute for Information
Law of the University of Amsterdam, the 2016 Report of the
UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Center for Law
and Democracy’s Recommendations on Responsible Tech and
the Council of Europe’s draft Recommendation on the roles and
responsibilities of Internet intermediaries.
The declination of responsibilities for a particular stakeholder is
typically linked to the “role” that can be attributed to it in a particular
process or system: in Internet governance, this goes back to the
2005 Tunis Agenda for Information Society, which established the
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