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The Effective Competition Standard: A New Standard For Antitrust, Maurice Stucke
The Effective Competition Standard: A New Standard For Antitrust, Maurice Stucke
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Speech, Innovation, And Competition, Greg Day
Speech, Innovation, And Competition, Greg Day
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Critics contend that concentrated power in digital markets has generated threats to free speech. For a variety of reasons, market power is naturally thought to concentrate in digital markets. The consequence is that “big tech” is said to face little competition; Facebook controls 72 percent of the social media market while the parent of YouTube (72 percent of the video market) is Google (92 percent of the search market). This landscape has potentially vested private companies with unprecedented power over the flow of information. If Facebook, for example, decides to ban certain types of speech or ideas, it would potentially …
Monopolizing Free Speech, Greg Day
Monopolizing Free Speech, Greg Day
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The First Amendment prevents the government from suppressing speech, though individuals can ban, chill, or abridge free expression without offending the Constitution. Hardly an unintended consequence, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously likened free speech to a marketplace where the responsibility of rejecting dangerous, repugnant, or worthless speech lies with the people. This is supposed to maximize social welfare since the market is believed to promote good ideas and condemn bad ones better than the state. Nevertheless, anxiety is mounting that large technology corporations exercise unreasonable power in the marketplace of ideas.
Because the ability of “big tech” to abridge speech …
Sustainable And Unchallenged Algorithmic Tacit Collusion, Maurice Stucke
Sustainable And Unchallenged Algorithmic Tacit Collusion, Maurice Stucke
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