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Protecting And Fostering Online Platform Competition: The Role Of Antitrust Law, Jonathan Baker
Protecting And Fostering Online Platform Competition: The Role Of Antitrust Law, Jonathan Baker
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This essay provides a perspective on the role of antitrust law in protecting and fostering competition in the digital economy, with particular attention to online platforms. It highlights the danger of anti-competitive exclusionary conduct by dominant online platforms and describes ways that antitrust law can challenge and deter such conduct. The essay also identifies a number of difficulties that U.S. courts and enforcers face in challenging harmful exclusionary conduct by dominant platforms, and discusses some ways regulation can supplement antitrust law in fostering competition.