元宇宙空间中的政府介入及其原则

Government Intervention and Its Principles in Metaverse Space

Web1.0的理想是扁平化和匿名性。Web2.0带来了数字经济的繁荣,也导致了平台化。Web3.0则要在区块链的基础上重新回到扁平化和匿名性。在目前的元宇宙空间中,平台型数字企业具有显性的优势地位。平台型数字企业从财税重要来源、产业升级支撑、新的国家竞争力、国防工业辅助等方面对政府战略合法性形成重要支撑。平台型数字企业表现出革命者和寡头的双重面向。数字非正义向物理空间的外溢,以及元宇宙空间的政治化,都使得政府介入变得极为必要。政府要在元宇宙空间中站稳脚跟,其根本要依赖于自身转型以及对元宇宙空间中新规则的理解。政府要形成以元宇宙空间为中心的新观念,还要培育自身足够的数字能力。政府对元宇宙的介入不能以一种机械介入的方式来展开,而应该形成一种有机介入。这种有机的介入就要求政府在元宇宙空间中以某种中间仲裁者的角色出现,并遵从数字正义原则,对空间中的相应事务进行适度干预。在元宇宙空间中,政府需要通过一种深入而非弥散性的介入,通过良性互动和适度干预以及阶段性地实现数字正义,形成长期的数字文化认同。

The ideal features of Web 1.0 was flatness and anonymity. Web 2.0 brought the boom of digital economy and led to platformization. Web 3.0 is going back to flatness and anonymity based on blockchain. In the current space of metaverse, platform-based digital enterprises are the dominant and advantageous presence. Platform-based digital enterprises form an important support to the government’s strategic legitimacy in terms of important sources of fiscal revenue, industrial upgrading support, new national competitiveness, and defense industrial assistance. Platform-based digital enterprises exhibit the dual orientation of revolutionaries and oligarchs. The spillover of digital injustice into physical space and the politicization of the metaverse space make government intervention extremely necessary. The fundamental reliance of government to stand firm in the metaverse space relies on its own transformation and understanding of the new rules in the metaverse space. The government has to develop a new concept centered on the metaverse space and also develop its own sufficient digital capabilities. The government’s involvement in the metaverse cannot be developed in a mechanical way, but should form an organic involvement. This organic involvement requires the government to appear as some kind of intermediary arbiter in the metaverse space, and follow the principle of digital justice to intervene moderately in the corresponding affairs in the space. In the metaverse, the government needs to achieve digital justice through a deep rather than diffuse intervention, benign interaction, moderate intervention and phased realization to form a long-term digital cultural identity.