Antitrust Enforcement to Protect the Generation of Digital Consumers
More and more of our economic and social lives are being conducted through digital channels. Economist Fiona Scott Morton talks about how effective antitrust regulation and enforcement can protect digital consumers. In recent months, increasing interest has been focused on applying antitrust law to digital conglomerates that can control to a certain degree how citizens communicate, shop, and, possibly, cast their ballots. The Department of Justice and the FTC have initiated antitrust investigations of big tech, and in September, 48 state attorneys general announced that they are collaborating on an investigation as well.
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