Regulating Digital Industries: How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Free Speech

The Regulation of Digital Industries is the first book to address the tech backlash within a coherent policy framework, arguing for new laws and regulations to promote competition, privacy, and free speech in tech. It brings insights from the breakup of AT&T and the Microsoft case and from broadcasting and financial services regulation to enrich the discussion of remedies to the failure of tech competition, the massive invasion of privacy by digital firms, and the information disorder perpetuated by social media platforms. It offers a comprehensive summary of regulatory reform efforts in the United States and abroad and shows how accomplishing the goals of these reform efforts requires the establishment of a single digital agency with jurisdiction to reconcile and balance the complementary and conflicting goals of promoting competition, protecting privacy, and preserving free speech in digital industries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 498 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2023
Publisher: Brookings Institution

The Regulation of Digital Industries is a groundbreaking book that tackles the tech backlash by proposing a comprehensive policy framework. It recognizes competition, privacy, and free speech as essential objectives that must be pursued by a dedicated industry regulator. The book delves into current policy controversies involving social media companies, search engines, electronic commerce platforms, and mobile apps, highlighting the need for new laws and regulations to promote competition, privacy, and free speech in tech. Drawing on the history of regulation and antitrust in the United States, the book offers insights from the breakup of AT&T and the Microsoft case, as well as broadcasting and financial services regulation. It provides a comprehensive summary of regulatory reform efforts in the United States and abroad, emphasizing the importance of establishing a single digital agency with jurisdiction to reconcile and balance the complementary and conflicting goals of promoting competition, protecting privacy, and preserving free speech in digital industries. The book discusses in detail the structure and powers of a digital regulatory agency, addressing challenges such as the First Amendment roadblock and judicial opposition to the expansion of government authority over digital speech. It offers a thoughtful and well-researched analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing digital regulation, making it an essential read for policymakers, industry leaders, and anyone interested in the future of digital industries.
The Regulation of Digital Industries is a groundbreaking book that addresses the tech backlash by proposing a comprehensive policy framework. It recognizes competition, privacy, and free speech as essential objectives that must be pursued by a dedicated industry regulator. The book delves into current policy controversies involving social media companies, search engines, electronic commerce platforms, and mobile apps, highlighting the need for new laws and regulations to promote competition, privacy, and free speech in tech. Drawing on the history of regulation and antitrust in the United States, the book offers insights from the breakup of AT&T and the Microsoft case, as well as broadcasting and financial services regulation. It provides a comprehensive summary of regulatory reform efforts in the United States and abroad, emphasizing the importance of establishing a single digital agency with jurisdiction to reconcile and balance the complementary and conflicting goals of promoting competition, protecting privacy, and preserving free speech in digital industries. The book discusses in detail the structure and powers of a digital regulatory agency, addressing challenges such as the First Amendment roadblock and judicial opposition to the expansion of government authority over digital speech. It offers a thoughtful and well-researched analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing digital regulation, making it an essential read for policymakers, industry leaders, and anyone interested in the future of digital industries.

Weight: 689g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780815739814