{"id":34702,"date":"2022-05-19T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?p=34702"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:48:46","slug":"independent-but-together-how-antitrust-and-regulation-can-work-synergistically-to-benefit-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/independent-but-together-how-antitrust-and-regulation-can-work-synergistically-to-benefit-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent, But Together: How Antitrust and Regulation Can Work Synergistically To Benefit Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Public Knowledge released my new paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/a-lesson-from-the-landmark-att-breakup-both-a-sector-specific-regulator-and-antitrust-enforcers-were-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Lesson From the Landmark AT&amp;T Breakup: Both a Sector-specific Regulator and Antitrust Enforcers Were Needed<\/a>.\u201d The paper traces how antitrust enforcers and a regulatory agency with jurisdiction over telecommunications, each working independently in pursuit of its own defined mission, produced a competitive telecommunications industry with the attendant benefits for competitors and consumers and society \u2013 lower priced and higher quality goods and services. A similar dual approach of a regulatory agency with jurisdiction over Big Tech and the vigorous application of&nbsp; existing and enhanced antitrust laws aimed at the industry can do the same for Big Tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past several years, a number of macro-level public policy debates have been swirling around Big Tech. One debate has been about whether the antitrust laws, perhaps with some strengthening or new provisions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/2992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">specifically<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/2710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">designed<\/a> to reach Big Tech, are sufficient to address the dominance of companies such as Facebook (Meta), Google, Amazon, Apple, and some others. Indeed, whether Section 2 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/sherman_antitrust_act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sherman Act<\/a>, antitrust\u2019s main anti-monopolization law, can be effective for at least part of meeting this challenge is currently being tested in antitrust cases against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/legal-library\/browse\/cases-proceedings\/191-0134-facebook-inc-ftc-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook (Meta)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-sues-monopolist-google-violating-antitrust-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another issue concerns whether some platforms have particular economic and other characteristics that inherently lead to, or at least \u201ctip\u201d toward, dominance by a single or a very small number of firms with the resultant tendency toward practices that harm competition or lead to anti-consumer practices. If they do, it follows that these platforms need sector-specific competition laws or regulation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalplatformact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DPA_ChapterFour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prevent the dominance from recurring<\/a> rather than waiting for these characteristics to lead right back to the same dominance, with the attendant anti-competitive and anti-consumer consequences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a question over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobooth.edu\/research\/stigler\/news-and-media\/committee-on-digital-platforms-final-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who should regulate<\/a> \u2013 whether the authority to regulate should go to an existing regulatory agency or a new agency with specific subject matter jurisdiction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Knowledge was early to the discussion of most of these issues. Beginning in 2018, Public Knowledge published a <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/harold-felds-2018-series-on-regulating-digital-platforms\/\">series<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/the-right-way-to-regulate-digital-platforms\/\">of<\/a> articles and blog posts advocating for the need for regulation to address some of the inherent characteristics of tech. The details of why regulation was needed and the elements of a legislative mandate for such regulation were later <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2019\/07\/16\/big-tech-regulation-antitrust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spelled out<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-and-roosevelt-institute-launch-guidebook-to-regulating-digital-platforms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in detail<\/a>. What had been a debate on whether to regulate now seems to be an emerging consensus, indeed an <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/frances-haugen-wants-a-digital-regulator-and-so-does-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emerged<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22711551\/facebook-whistleblower-congress-hearing-regulation-mark-zuckerberg-frances-haugen-senator-blumenthal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consensus<\/a>, that platforms should be regulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is not yet consensus on whether there should be a new regulatory agency, a \u201cDigital Platform Authority,\u201d or whether authority should be vested in an existing agency or agencies, although Public Knowledge <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/gene-kimmelman-to-testify-before-senate-judiciary-committee-on-digital-platform-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">believes<\/a> a new agency should be created and the idea is <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-applauds-bill-creating-digital-regulator-to-rein-in-big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">picking up steam<\/a> in Congress. Some proposed legislation would vest authority in some areas to existing agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Knowledge has also long advocated not just for regulation but also for antitrust enforcement as an additional remedy to the dominance of platforms. Others have argued that regulation will interfere with antitrust enforcement and that regulated markets are the antithesis of antitrust\u2019s goal of competitive markets. Imposing regulation on markets is not a substitute for application of the antitrust laws. Those who oppose regulation have even argued that regulation will prevent markets that might otherwise be competitive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/public-statements\/antitrust-over-net-neutrality-why-we-should-take-competition-broadband-seriously\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by imposing inefficiencies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/technology-and-innovation\/an-antitrust-informed-approach-to-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and unnecessary regulatory drag<\/a> on those markets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2017\/06\/dont-trust-antitrust-law-protect-net-neutrality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Others<\/a> have argued the opposite. Public Knowledge has recently argued that a measure to protect proprietary data that began as a sector-specific FCC regulation should <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/an-ounce-of-preventive-regulation-is-worth-a-pound-of-antitrust-enforcement-the-case-for-platform-cpni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">be enacted<\/a> via statute to protect competition and avoid unfair treatment by platforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/a-lesson-from-the-landmark-att-breakup-both-a-sector-specific-regulator-and-antitrust-enforcers-were-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Lesson From the Landmark AT&amp;T Breakup: Both a Sector-specific Regulator and Antitrust Enforcers Were Needed<\/a>,\u201d addresses these issues. It reviews the most relevant recent experience with the application of the antitrust laws to a sector, communications, overseen by a sector-specific regulatory agency, the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC regulation, even with all the historic defects associated with regulatory agencies (such as \u201cregulatory capture,\u201d a plodding pace, fits and starts, etc.), not only resulted in the creation of competition but also formed the basis for the framework needed by the antitrust court to impose divestiture and the dismantling of an \u201cend-to-end\u201d monopoly \u2013 what many regard as one of the most successful antitrust cases in history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, this occurred without any coordination between the court and the agency. The FCC was already over a decade along in addressing other issues arising under its regulatory purview when the antitrust case was filed in 1974. The FCC\u2019s efforts continued as the antitrust case moved along independently in the courts for the next seven years or so. It is also noteworthy that during the 20 or so years the FCC was engaging in its regulatory efforts that resulted in competition in multiple markets, the FCC\u2019s statutory mandate, the Communications Act, did not even mention the word \u201ccompetition\u201d in its charge to the FCC. This paper shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/key-elements-and-functions-of-a-new-digital-regulatory-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there is no<\/a> antagonism between sector-specific regulation and application of the antitrust laws. Indeed, they are synergistic and regulation can begin to deliver the benefits of competition before or as antitrust remedies take effect and as part of a broader antitrust solution.<br><br>Just as antitrust and regulation should work in tandem, legislative ideas to strengthen antitrust and give agencies sector-specific tools should do the same. That means creating a new digital regulator. In the immediate term, it means passing bipartisan bills like the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-urges-congress-to-pass-american-innovation-and-choice-online-act-after-historic-bipartisan-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Innovation and Choice Online Act<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-celebrates-nearly-unanimous-open-app-markets-act-vote-urges-full-passage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open App Markets Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Public Knowledge paper by Al Kramer outlines how regulation and antitrust law can work synergistically to rein in Big Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":34691,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-34702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-platform-regulation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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