Crash Course - Platforms and the limits of Competition Policy with Farwa Sial
May 20, 2021
In this webinar from Crash Course Economics, we discussed the challenges that Big Tech confronts us with in terms of regulation. The platform economy has fundamentally changed our societies and has made more and more citizens dependent on less and less companies. Due to lobbying efforts as well as ignorance and incompetence on many policy levels, this sector has massively expanded without much government oversight. The US has started talking about splitting up Facebook, but critics warn that this is not sufficient.
Farwa Sial zoomed in on the regulatory problems and trends that intellectual monopolies and the platform economy have raised. We asked her:
- How has the lack of data regulation enabled the rise of Big Tech?
- Why are the current competition policy frameworks falling short of regulating intellectual monopolies?
- What kind of regulation do we need to regain control and empower the public domain?
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