At present, the society is full of a large number of automated information production, such as machine production, automated matching, unmanned driving, etc., in addition to some semi-automated work. This puts new demands on the law.

In the era of information explosion, we spend a lot of time processing a lot of information every day, many of which are junk information, and it is difficult for users to distinguish the value of information. Therefore, society has a variety of mechanisms to help people to screen spam, economics is to reduce the cost of information, improve efficiency.

Legal issues that cannot be avoided in the information age

The world is changing very fast and there are too many decisions to be made. Most of the time, we may not be able to grasp how this information is helpful to our decision-making. In order to better judge information and track something new, rather than rest on its laurels, it is necessary to constantly absorb new information so that decision-making models can better respond to this changing world. There is also consumer information. We went to see station B, trembles, listened to music and played games. this is all information. Information itself has become a commodity, instead of simply helping people to make transactions and make decisions. Information itself will form a content industry, which is an information economy. Some information and data may be automatically generated through various sensors or the Internet of Things.

Algorithm production may reduce costs and generate infinitely, so does this information make sense to human society? How does the value manifest? And how does the information help promote a competitive market? What kind of conflicts will arise in this market in the process of competition? At this time, new legal issues also arise.

We can first explain it with the help of the theory of social production. The original production process was not entirely social, but more of a closed organization with boundaries. Because the cost of transactions and information in the market is very high, but companies can take advantage of this high cost, help organize people, facilitate the division of labor, and more effectively seek other traders in the market.

Today, Internet production is also called "peer production", because many self-employed no longer need to join an enterprise. The network reduces costs and shortens the distance between production and consumption. We have entered a so-called automated production process, which can be explained by applying the concept of "phase change" in physics. That is, the molecular structure of a substance will change, such as liquid processing into a gaseous state, but the molecule itself does not change, only the polymerization form has changed.

The same is true of the digital economy. It turns out that many factors of production are gathered in some industrial clusters and industrial organizations, but now the Internet has broken up the control of traditional enterprises and attracted them to a platform. The cost of obtaining this kind of information is very low, and it will increase the total amount. Great social value. Therefore, the emergence of the Internet actually represents a change in the mode of production. Without this change in the mode of production, the value will not increase much.

What does cyber law tell us?

What has cyber law told us over the past 20 years?

First is identity. The identity in the virtual space should be bound to the real identity of each user, and the user behavior can be tracked and predicted more accurately through this system. The second is about property. The ownership of the means of production basically belongs to the platform. The platform can give you software and provide various services, but such services are not essentially a commodity. E-books and music, you think they are bought with money, but in fact they are not at all. Users only obtain permission to use these streaming media services in a specific period of time, and the ownership of the means of production still belongs to the platform. This is a special feature of property relations, including intellectual property, such as copyright. The third is platform responsibility. Since there are safe haven rules, the platform will gradually defeat the traditional industry to obtain more elements and reduce responsibilities. Regarding the issue of privacy, we cannot expect traditional privacy protection on the Internet. Traditional privacy is spatial, that is, information is not recorded or transmitted, but this is impossible on the Internet. Privacy issues will translate into more neutral issues, such as the regulation of personal information protection. Although we don't look at the format clauses of the platform, in fact they are formal binding, and many things can be agreed, including the issue of jurisdiction, which ensures a certain order. In terms of labor, there are a lot of discussions on flexible employment in the labor law. In essence, flexible employment basically has no labor relationship in the process of producing for the Internet, but only cooperation or labor relations. This relationship is very loose in nature. But because of flexibility, everyone can work more fragmented.

Therefore, on the surface, the law does not care about production, but in fact it is all about how to reduce the cost of obtaining production factors, organize the production process, and establish the production order. The Internet hopes that the law will ensure a kind of benefit, that is, how to reduce the cost of production factors, help it organize the production process, and finally establish a productive order. This is very important. If there is no production order, there will be chaos on the Internet. You will often buy fake goods on the Internet and encounter fraud, fake news and hate speech.