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Antitrust and Competition

Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow
To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and encourage adversarial...
Antitrust and Competition

Is It Better to Address the Apple-Google App Store Duopoly Through Antitrust or Regulation? 

Giuseppe Colangelo
A new paper analyzes antitrust investigations and private litigation initiated against the Google and Apple app stores, exploring how the main anticompetitive practices within...
Antitrust and Competition

Why Competition Alone Won’t Bring About a More Inclusive Digital Economy

Maurice E. Stucke
The current reforms being debated in the US and Europe to tackle the challenges posed by tech giants tend to see more competition as...
Antitrust and Competition

How to Prevent Big Tech From Hindering Pathbreaking Innovation in the Metaverse

Cristian Santesteban
The transition to the metaverse presents a technological paradigm shift akin to the shift from desktop computers to smartphones, but today’s dominant platforms will...
Antitrust and Competition

Designing Better Antitrust Remedies for the Digital World

Filippo Lancieri
Even when antitrust enforcers and courts get it right when finding an anticompetitive infringement, they constantly end up imposing remedies that are inadequate to...
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech

Oles Andriychuk
The current structure of digital advertising markets makes the Google-Facebook duopoly an unavoidable trading partner for every party in the content consumption supply chain,...
Antitrust and Competition

Google’s Calls for DOJ Antitrust Head Jonathan Kanter’s Recusal Are Baseless

Laurence H. Tribe
Kanter’s pre-existing commitment to aggressive antitrust enforcement, far from compromising the legitimacy of his actions, reinforces his qualifications for doing the job of Assistant...
Antitrust and Competition

How the Free Software and the IP Wars of the 1990s and 2000s Presaged Today’s Toxic, Concentrated Internet

Elettra Bietti
How did the internet evolve from a relatively decentralized, hybrid, and democratizing space toward a concentrated, privatized environment controlled by a handful of actors?...
Antitrust and Competition

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

Adam Levitin
Apple’s efforts to dominate the contactless payments market and lock up the “digital key” space pose a profound threat to consumer privacy and the...
Antitrust and Competition

Frances Haugen’s Leaking of the Facebook Papers Will Hurt Decision-Making at Tech Companies

Matt Perault
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s assurances that Facebook will continue its research program, it seems almost inevitable that the company will narrow the scale and scope of the...
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