Antitrust

Please join ITIF for a lively virtual discussion with experts from diverse regulatory landscapes as they unpack the DMA’s real-world impact, analyze global trends in digital regulation, and evaluate whether ex-ante rules are the right path forward for competition.

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While the Interim Report of the Market Review on the Digital Economy Ecosystem under the Competition Act 2010 reflects a valuable step toward understanding market trends, it does not present clear evidence of systemic market failure that would warrant prescriptive regulatory intervention.

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AI provides no reason at this time for either heavy-handed enforcement of our antitrust laws or fundamental changes to them. The right approach is to maintain antitrust law’s traditional focus on promoting competition and innovation by proscribing collusive and exclusionary anticompetitive conduct.

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Rather than adopt the European Union’s model for regulating competition, policymakers considering how to govern digital markets should carefully evaluate whether digital antitrust regulation is justified and consider whether concerns about anticompetitive behavior can be addressed with less intrusive and more cost-effective tools.

Europe risks undermining its competitiveness in the AI race by heeding calls to extend the DMA to AI and cloud services.

While the DMA may be motivated by Europe’s commitment to its long-held ordoliberal model of competition policy, its disproportionate effects on U.S. firms are intentional.

A growing proliferation of antitrust regulations, content-moderation requirements, data-localization mandates, digital service taxes, exorbitant fines and fees, and local content requirements reveals a clear pattern: They are designed to unfairly burden and extract revenue from American Big Tech.