On February 4th, 65438, the 25th Digital Forum, co-sponsored by China Cyberspace Security Association, internet society of china and School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University, was held in Beijing. With the theme of "Annual Resume of Platform Governance", this forum reviewed a series of major events in the Internet industry in the past year.
Carry the anti-monopoly through to the end
On April 7, four months after Alibaba's "two in one" case was investigated, the supervision boots officially landed, and the State Administration of Markets made an administrative penalty, ordered Alibaba Group to stop abusing its dominant market position, and issued a fine of 65.438+08.228 billion yuan. 108,65438, Meituan, another giant in the Internet industry, was also fined 3.442 billion yuan for "choosing one from the other".
When the digital economy is in full swing, the supervision of the digital economy is becoming more and more perfect. Previously, China * * * the Political Bureau of the Central Committee conducted the thirty-fourth collective study on promoting the healthy development of China's digital economy. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to standardize the development of the digital economy, adhere to the promotion of development and supervision, and both hands should be hard, standardize in development and develop in standardization.
According to the latest data, in 2020, the scale of digital economy in China will reach 39.2 trillion yuan, accounting for 38.6% of GDP, maintaining a high growth rate of 9.7%, which has become a key driving force for stable economic growth. At the same time, some "first-Mover advantage" enterprises crowd out competitors by virtue of their own market share and obtain monopoly profits, which seriously affects the normal development of market order.
Chen, secretary-general of all china lawyers association Information Network and High-tech Professional Committee, believes that the difficulty of platform anti-monopoly or the problem in implementation is ultimately the supervision of data. Data is the core asset of the platform. At present, many anti-monopoly behaviors of the platform under discussion, such as killing big data and discriminating treatment, are realized through data algorithms, so data supervision is the core element of platform anti-monopoly.
The supervision of data will become the focus of the next stage of anti-monopoly. Yang Dong, Executive Dean of the Institute of Competition Law of Renmin University of China, pointed out that the competition in the field of digital economy is evolving into the competition between platforms, and the competition behind platforms is ecological competition, which highlights the value of data circulation as a new factor of production. Anti-monopoly at the data level will become the focus of the next stage of governance.
There are laws to protect personal information.
In addition, Wang Chunhui believes that the "gatekeeper" system specially set up for large enterprises may be "abused". Because this "gatekeeper" system gives large-scale Internet platforms a kind of "law enforcement power", is it possible for large-scale Internet platforms to investigate the compliance of other operators' personal information processing in the platform according to law? This is questionable. It is suggested that the relevant state departments issue laws and regulations specifically for the "gatekeeper" system, so that the "gatekeeper" system itself has laws to follow.
Now, the personal information protection law has been officially implemented for more than a month. There are no typical cases for reference on how to protect personal information, how to collect personal information, how to deal with it, and the ownership of personal data. How to further promote social innovation through governance, release the vitality of data elements and make data flow smoother is testing practitioners in related industries and will also become the key to the future development of digital economy.
Platform interconnection is in-depth and practical.
On September 13, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requested that all Internet platforms must be unsealed according to the standards within a time limit, otherwise disposal measures will be taken according to law.
Earlier, according to Zhao Zhiguo, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is guiding relevant Internet companies to carry out self-examination and rectification according to the special action plan for rectifying the Internet industry. However, in the self-examination and rectification, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology learned that there is still a certain gap between some Internet companies' understanding of blocking URL links and the requirements for special actions. To this end, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has adopted various forms such as administrative guidance meetings to further help enterprises realize that interconnection is an inevitable choice for the high-quality development of the Internet industry, and it is also the direction for the Internet industry to allow users to use the Internet smoothly and safely.
However, interconnection is nothing new in the Internet industry. The core spirit of the Internet is equality, cooperation and enjoyment. The shielded Internet runs counter to this basic spirit. The traffic generated by internet activities should belong to public traffic, and the mutual shielding between platforms is suspected of serving the interests of the company and conflicts with the public interest.
Nowadays, the rapid development of mobile Internet has penetrated into every aspect of our daily life, bringing great convenience to our lives, but also hiding challenges everywhere. The healthy development of platform economy based on mobile Internet has become a current topic. Some deliberately "build walls" for their own interests and maliciously "block" competitors' links, which brings great inconvenience to netizens' internet life. Moreover, the capital of internet companies is still expanding without restrictions.
Interconnection is the spiritual core of the digital age and the "key" to open the digital door. It is an inevitable trend to dismantle the "walled garden" between platforms. Creating an interconnected network ecology is the aspiration of the people and the inevitable choice for the high-quality development of the Internet industry. In the future, the governance of interconnection will surely become another key area facing the Internet industry, and will also open up a new pattern for the in-depth development of China's digital economy.