Digital platform harms won't be fixed by competition regulation alone

Digital platform harms won't be fixed by competition regulation alone
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans July 29 (BusinessDesk) - Global digital platforms may have the potential for harm, but competition regulation isn’t necessarily the right tool for addressing them, a visiting academic says. Concerns about the size of some platforms – which include Google, Facebook and Amazon – and how those these “big, powerful networks are used,” are legitimate, Professor Howard Shelanski says. “It is very possible that certain things that happen as a result of these platforms are bad things,” he told delegates at the Competition Matter...

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