Pursuit of online democracy: Analysis of Facebook and Google in the scope of social contract

As a result of its constantly transformable and adaptable structure, the concept of democracy has been implying different governmental foundations since the Old Ages regarding economy, population, geographical conditions, and space and time. This structure of democracy provides advantages, particularly sustainability and self-renewability for responding to changing conditions. In addition, this situation, which can be considered flexibility in sound democratic foundations, can cause fractions to anarchy or authoritarianism in defective ones. Digital platforms and social media have become remarkable parts of daily life in recent years. Thus, democracy requests have inevitably arisen on these platforms, as well. Privacy is a fundamental human right, and the privilege to breach users' privacy is the primary term of service for the service providers on these platforms; they demand authorization to be recognized as the states in the digital world. End-User License Agreements, which regulate the relationship between service providers and users, are social contracts that can be identified as digital constitutions. With this research, the level at which these agreements are capable of protecting users' rights and providing a democratic digital world will be investigated through the cases of Google and Facebook, which are the two most dominant corporations in their business. Keywords: Social contract, big data, end user license agreement, democracy, privacy, Google, Facebook