Regulating Big Tech Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

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Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and curtail the dominance of a few, yet regulatory responses remain fragmented, with some focused solely on competition while others seek to address issues around harm, privacy, and freedom of expression.

Regulating Big Tech condenses the vibrant tech policy debate into a toolkit for the policy maker, legal expert, and academic seeking to address one of the key issues facing democracies today: platform dominance and its impact on society. Contributors explore elements of the toolkit through comprehensive coverage of existing and future policy on data, antitrust, competition, freedom of expression, jurisdiction, fake news, elections, liability, and accountability, while also identifying potential policy impacts on global communication, user rights, public welfare, and economic activity.

With original chapters from leading academics and policy experts, Regulating Big Tech sets out a policy framework that can address interlocking challenges of contemporary tech regulation and offer actionable solutions for our technological future.

Martin Moore is Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication, and Power and a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London. His research focuses on political communication during election and referendum campaigns, and on the civic power of technology platforms. He is the author of
Democracy Hacked (2016) and publishes frequently on media and politics.

Damian Tambini is Associate Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics specialising in media and communications policy and law. He has served as an advisor and expert in numerous policymaking roles for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the UK
Government, and the UK media regulator, Ofcom.

Introduction
Damian Tambini and Martin Moore

PART I: Enhancing Competition

1. Reshaping Platform-Driven Digital Markets
Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Entsminger, and Rainer Kattel

2. Reforming Competition and Media Law--The German Approach
Bernd Holznagel and Sarah Hartmann

3. Overcoming Market Power in Online Video Platforms
Eli M. Noam

4. Enabling Community-Owned Platforms--A Proposal for a Tech New Deal
Nathan Schneider

PART II: Increasing Accountability

5. Obliging Platforms to Accept a Duty of Care
Lorna Woods and Will Perrin

6. Minimizing Data-Driven Targeting and Providing a Public Search Alternative
Angela Phillips and Eleonora Maria Mazzoli

7. Accelerating Adoption of a Digital Intermediary Tax
Elda Brogi and Roberta Maria Carlini

PART III: Safeguarding Privacy

8. Treating Dominant Digital Platforms as Public Trustees
Philip M. Napoli

9. Establishing Auditing Intermediaries to Verify Platform Data
Ben Wagner and Lubos Kuklis

10. Promoting Data for Well-Being While Minimizing Stigma
Frank Pasquale

Part IV: Protecting Democracy

11. Responding to Disinformation: Ten Recommendations for Regulatory Action and Forbearance
Chris Marsden, Ian Brown, and Michael Veale

12. Creating New Electoral Public Spheres
Martin Moore

13. Transposing Public Service Media Obligations to Dominant Platforms
Jacob Rowbottom

PART V: Reforming Governance

14. A Model for Global Governance of Platforms
Robert Fay

15. Determining Our Technological and Democratic Future: A Wish List
Paul Nemitz and Matthias Pfeffer

16. Reconceptualizing Media Freedom
Damian Tambini

17. A New Social Contract for Platforms
Victor Pickard

Conclusion: Without a Holistic Vision, Democratic Media Reforms May Fail
Martin Moore and Damian Tambini