数字平台外链封禁行为的反垄断法律规制与豁免

Antitrust Legal Regulation and Exemptions for External Link Blocking Behavior on Digital Platforms

当今社会已步入数字时代,数字平台经济作为数字经济的重要组成部分已然成为我国经济高质量发展的重要一环。平台外链封禁行为是日益激烈的数字平台竞争的副产品。数字平台外链封禁行为会抑制平台经济的良性竞争,造成无序扩张、强者通吃的局面。通过对数字平台外链封禁行为的内涵界定、违法表征分析、行为性质辨析,本文认为该行为的性质属于我国反垄断法所规制的“其他滥用市场支配地位的行为”。同时,存在封禁垃圾外链、屏蔽作弊外链、屏蔽违法信息等豁免事由。可通过借鉴欧盟“守门人”思路,完善相关立法赋予超级平台特殊义务;确立必需基础设施理论,完善我国反垄断相关立法两个方面对数字平台外链封禁行为的反垄断立法规制进行优化。

Today's society has entered the digital era.The digital platform economy,as an important part of the digital economy,has become an important part of China's high-quality economic development.Platform external links blocking is a byproduct of increasing competition among digital platforms.The blocking of external links on digital platforms will inhibit the benign competition of the platform economy,resulting in disorderly expansion and a situation where the strong take all.Through the definition of the connotation,and the analysis of the illegal characterization and the nature of the behavior of external link blocking on digital platforms,this paper holds that the nature of the behavior belongs to"other behaviors abusing the dominant position of the market"regulated by China's antitrust law.At the same time,there are exemptions such as blocking garbage external links,shielding the cheating chain and illegal information.Therefore,we can learn from the EU's"gatekeeper"approach and improve relevant legislation to assign special obligations to super platforms;establish the theory of necessary infrastructure and improve the antitrust legislation in two aspects to optimize the antitrust legislation and regulations on the blocking of external links of the digital platform.