self-regulation
Noun
Meaning
self-regulation (uncountable)
The regulation (by a person or an organization) of their own behaviour without external control or monitoring.
Synonyms
Examples
We cannot legislate responsibility. Self-regulation is the best option. I have crossed the line; I stand on the side of press freedom.
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it's that self-regulation doesn't work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.
At the same time, many companies have gratefully accepted the free pass to self-regulation by establishing ethics boards, writing guidelines, and sponsoring research in topics like algorithmic bias or “fairness in artificial intelligence”.
In an interim report tabled late on Wednesday, the Senate committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology backed the BNPL sector's code of practice, saying self-regulation helped to protect innovation.
For Peirce, rational inquiry implies presuppositions about truth and the real; to reason is to presuppose (and at least to hope), as a principle of the reasoner's self-regulation, that the real is discoverable and independent of our vagaries of opinion.
A toddler’s self-regulation – the ability to change behavior in different social situations – may predict whether he or she will be obese come kindergarten, but the connection appears to be much different for girls than for boys.