规范元宇宙:可能性、难题与基本思路

Regulating Metaverse:Possibilities,Conundrums and Fundamental Approaches

虽然当下热议的“元宇宙”是一个缺乏明确定义的概念,但是“数字化生存”的愿景和想象启示了人类进入数字化社会形态的各种可能性。元宇宙本身不是一种方法,也不是一种技术,而是一个集人的游戏(玩)、好赌及趋利性三种主要特性于一身的商业概念。人的这三种特性构成了元宇宙的核心。元宇宙发展的方向取决于人类自身的选择和建构,虚拟世界与现实世界在法律关系上具有同一性、关联性和相似性,虚拟世界的规范秩序建构依赖于现实世界的法律概念、原则和制度。未来元宇宙是以法律规则为核心的组织化、规则化和秩序化的秩序建构过程。法律规制和政府监管对虚拟世界来说是必需的,谁来管控元宇宙是重要的议题,在宪法层面对元宇宙的私权力进行有效规制,对于塑造更美好的未来具有结构性的基础作用。

Although“metaverse”is a concept that lacks a clear definition, the vision and imagination of“digital existence”reveal various possibilities for human beings to enter into digital social forms. The direction of the development of the metaverse depends on the choices and constructions of human beings themselves. The metaverse itself is not a method, nor a technology, but a commercial concept that integrates the three main characteristics in human nature: gaming(play), gambling and human tendency of pursuing interest. These three characteristics of man form the core of the metaverse. The virtual world and the real world share sameness, relevance and similarity in legal relations, and the construction of the normative order of the virtual world relies on the legal concepts, principles and institutions of the real world. The future metaverse is an order construction process of organizing, regulating and ordering with legal rules as the core. Legal and government regulation are necessary for the virtual world. Who will control the metaverse is an important issue. Effective regulation of the private power of the metaverse at the constitutional level plays a structural and fundamental role in shaping a better future.