Meta as a Digital Sovereign: Digital Aspects of non-state normative system in 21st century

Meta as a Digital Sovereign: Digital Aspects of non-state normative system in 21st century Abstract: This thesis examines the normative system appliccable at Meta platforms through the lens of the theory of legal pluralism and by analysing the decisions of the Oversight Board and attempts to answer the question of whether there is such a thing as Facebook law. In the second chapter, I describe the development of legal pluralism and its transition from a descriptive analysis of the plurality of legal orders to a normative theory of how to deal with this plurality. Within this chapter, I confront traditional views and understandings of the concept of law with alternative definitions and conceptions penned by the authors of legal pluralism, along with alternative views of the concept of authority. I conclude this chapter with three main strands of critique of legal pluralism that I have identified in the literature. In Chapter Three, I describe the phenomenon of digital platforms from four different perspectives. First as online services, second as a public space that is now absolutely essential to the exercise of fundamental rights, especially freedom of expression, third as an infrastructure on which a good deal of both ordinary interactions and economic operations are beginning to be built, and fourth as a..