网络平台治理应用冒犯原则的意义探析

Analysis of the Significance of the Offense Principle Applied in the Governance of Network Platforms

摘要: 随着数字时代的到来，网络空间与现实空间在交流、表达等方面都存在着较大差异，法律急需建立限制网络空间中公民行为自由的规则。笔者认为引进冒犯原则治理网络平台可以发挥出比在现实空间中更强的证成限制自由的作用。公民进入任何一个网络社交平台，都需要遵守平台社区管理规范，在中国包括但不限于微博、抖音、小红书等，这些规范中许多限制网络行为自由的条款都可以用冒犯原则来解释，例如禁止发布带有性暗示、性挑逗等易使人产生性联想的内容；禁止发布展现血腥、惊悚、残忍等致人身心不适的内容。引进冒犯原则治理网络平台不仅具有深化冒犯原则理论理解、填补网络平台适用冒犯原则理论的空白、完善数字法治结构建设的理论意义，还具有为网络平台治理适用冒犯原则提供现实依据、明确合理且大多数网民认可的冒犯原则边界等现实意义。

Abstract: With the advent of the digital age, there are significant differences in communication, expression, and other aspects between cyberspace and real space, and laws urgently need to establish rules that restrict the freedom of citizens’ behavior in cyberspace. The author believes that introducing the principle of offense to govern online platforms can play a stronger role in limiting freedom than in real space. When citizens access any online social networking platform, they need to comply with the platform’s community management norms. In China, including but not limited to microblog, Tiktok, Xiaohongshu, etc., many of the provisions of these norms that restrict the freedom of online behavior can be explained by the offending principle, such as the prohibition of publishing content with sexual hints, sexual provocation and other content that is easy to make people have sexual associations, prohibit the publication of content that displays blood, horror, cruelty, and other physical and mental discomfort. Introducing the principle of offense to govern online platforms not only has theoretical significance in deepening the theoretical understanding of the principle of offense, filling the gap in the theory of the principle of offense applicable to online platforms, and improving the construction of digital rule of law structure, but also has practical significance in providing a practical basis for the application of offense principle to the governance of online platforms, and clarifying the boundaries of offending principles that are reasonable and recognized by most netizens.