Rethinking Digital Human Rights:From the Perspective of Functional Differentiation
The social basis of digital human rights is not an integrated digital society,and digital technology only strengthens but does not fundamentally change the structural characteristics and operational logic of industrial society.Digital society is still a functionally differentiated society,so digital human rights do not have the subversive significance of intergenerational change.The basic function of digital human rights is to continue to maintain the functional differentiation of various systems in the digital age,to limit the internal expansion of various functional systems generated by digital technology,so as to establish reasonable boundaries be-tween individual physical and mental systems and functional systems,and between different functional sys-tems.Digital human rights can be divided into universal functional digital human rights and special functional digitalhuman rights.The former mainly refers to the right of Internet access,and the function is to support the inclusive and functional differentiation of all systems at the level of society as a whole;the latter mainly refers to the digital human rights of biological people and their social roles,whose functions are mainly to maintain the integrity and autonomy of individual physical and mental systems,as well as the autonomy of communica-tion of functional systems represented by social roles.
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