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Antitrust and Competition

“Free is Not Free”: What the Apple-Facebook Spat and the GameStop-Robinhood Fiasco Have in Common

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, antitrust scholar, lawyer, and businesswoman Dina Srinivasan explains why she believes that if users were given the choice to...
Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech’s Fight Over Privacy: Could Facebook Win an Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple?

Herbert Hovenkamp
Do the new iOS 14 privacy features violate antitrust laws? If Facebook brings an antitrust suit against Apple, as it is reportedly considering, there...
Antitrust and Competition

Giving Away Our Data for Free is a Market Failure

Nicholas Economides
By convincing users to give away their data for free, digital platforms have caused a market failure. This failure benefits them and harms us,...
Antitrust and Competition

False News Has a Long History—But Those In Power Failed To Heed It

Samuel Woolley
In his book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth, Samuel Woolley explores how governments failed to foresee...
Antitrust and Competition

The Great Deplatforming: Can Digital Platforms Be Trusted As Guardians of Free Speech?

Robert Sprague
Online social media platforms accepted the role of moderating content from Congress in 1996. The Great Deplatforming that occurred after January 6 was less...
Antitrust and Competition

Digital Platforms May Be Monopolistic Providers, But They Are Not Infrastructure

Carlo Amenta
Social media platforms are not infrastructure nor natural monopolies, and they should be regulated only if they have monopolistic power and abuse it. Free...
Antitrust and Competition

The Digital Markets Act Represents a Change in Europe’s Approach to Digital Gatekeepers

Florence G’sell
The Digital Markets Act is not a competition tool as such. Rather, it is a market regulation whose main objective is to guarantee equal...
Antitrust and Competition

There Are Lots of Competition Problems on the Internet. Parler’s Takedown Is Not One of Them.

Hal Singer
Parler’s antitrust case against Amazon is doomed, and there is no basis for Congress to impose any special duties on Amazon to deal with...
Antitrust and Competition

“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today

Tommaso Valletti
WhatsApp’s new terms of service should come as no surprise. For years, Big Tech has been offering its users these “take it or leave...
Antitrust and Competition

Paul Romer: “If You Think Moderation is Censorship, You’ve Got a Competition Problem”

Jana Kasperkevic
During a Stigler Center keynote webinar, Nobel laureate Paul Romer discussed concentration problems in the US and possible solutions, including a “pigouvian” tax, flexible...
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