Journal of Information Resources Management ›› 2025, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (2): 59-72.doi: 10.13365/j.jirm.2025.02.059

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Policy Changes in Digital Service Regulation: The EU’s Approach and The China’s Mirror

Li Guihua He Peipei Huang Lin   

  1. School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065
  • Online:2025-03-26 Published:2025-04-11
  • About author:Li Guihua, Ph.D., professor and doctoral supervisor, specializing in information behavior, Internet governance, and public sector information resource management; He Peipei(corresponding author), Ph.D. candidate, specializing in public sector information resource management and Internet governance, Email: peipeihe0323@stu.scu.edu.cn; Huang Lin, Ph.D. candidate, specializing in public sector information resource management and Internet governance.

Abstract: The negative externalities of digital services on Internet platforms has attracted extensive regulatory attention. The study of the global typical EU digital service regulation policy changes can provide a mirror for China's Internet platform regulation and digital service policy. Based on the policy feedback theory, this paper constructs an analytical framework, standardizes the content and reform practice of the EU digital service regulation policy, and combs the evolution of the EU digital service regulation policy of "lenient responsibility-balanced responsibility-diligence responsibility". In this process, the regulation activities of policy change are influenced by the first order feedforward resource effect and the interpretation effect. The formation of new public policy is shaped by the evolution effect of second-order feedback and the learning effect. Based on this logic, the EU has created a policy reform approach for digital service regulation, which covers three major strategies: policy consolidation, policy learning and policy adaptation. To sum up the experience of EU digital service regulation policy is of great significance for our country to learn from EU approach scientifically and rationally.

Key words: Digital service regulation, Policy change, Policy feedback, European Union, Digital Services Act

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