必需设施理论在规制平台封禁行为中的适用
Application of the Essential Facilities Doctrine in Regulating Platform Blocking

平台封禁行为的违法性在于其拒绝与其竞争对手合作、拒绝共享数据或拒绝竞争对手利用自身平台设施，应当属于拒绝交易行为。为此，当前应当明确必需设施的认定标准，并将其应用于超级平台，向下游竞争者提供进入平台的途径并强制要求纵向互操作性，平衡市场竞争的保护与技术的创新。此外，在对平台封禁行为运用必需设施理论的过程中，应当注重严格适用两个核心分析步骤，即必需性分析及正当性分析，以合理实现平台间的互联互通和数据互操作。
The illegality of platform blocking lies in its refusal to cooperate with its competitors, to share data or to allow competitors to utilize its platform facilities, which should be a refusal to deal. In this regard, it is important to clarify the criteria for recognizing essential facilities and to apply them to super platforms, providing downstream competitors with access to the platforms and enforcing vertical interoperability, so as to strike a balance between the protection of market competition and technological innovation. In addition, in the process of applying the essential facilities theory to platform blocking behaviors, the two core analytical steps of necessity analysis and justification analysis should be strictly applied to rationally achieve interconnection and data interoperability among platforms.