Social Media
Unter Social Media versteht man solche Internetanwendungen, die gemeinschaftlich genutzt werden, auf den Austausch von durch die Nutzenden bereitgestellte Inhalte angelegt sind und maßgeblich durch Gruppenbildung und Reputation in Form von Empfehlungen oder Bewertungen durch andere Nutzende geprägt sind (vgl. Hohlfeld, in: Rechtshandbuch Social Media, S. 13)
On 29 November 2024, the Australian federal Parliament enacted a world-first law, which imposed a minimum age for access to most social media sites in the country. The law will not come into full force for at least twelve months, to give time to social media platforms to devise appropriate methods for verifying the ages of users. The law might be a rare example that fails the proportionality test. Social media companies have the means and incentive to mount a constitutional challenge to find out; surely they are going to do so.
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In this article, I will demonstrate how some major platforms are failing to properly implement the Digital Service Act's (DSA) rules on notice and action mechanisms. In my view, many platforms are unduly nudging potential notice-senders to submit weak, largely unregulated Community Standards flags. At the same time, platforms are actively deterring users from submitting (strong) notices regulated under the DSA.
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