Re:The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules
by dalbasal on Sunday October 29, 2017 @10:35AM
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I don't think that's the most generous paraphrasing. I think the framing the article is putting forward (right or wrong) is:
The "first generation" of US antitrust rules were built around emergent giant of those times. Oil and it's transportation. Shiping. Infrastructure. Big, megalithic chunks of a maturing manufacturing economy, especially bottlenecks.
New era of commerce, new "trusts." New concentrations of influence that change the rules of the game in a corrupting way.
IDK if I'd frame it exactly the same way. Personally, I don't think we did the best job on the last generation of trusts. Data is referred to a bit to vaguely for my taste. I agree with you that working with a concept (trusts) that's nt ideal in the first place. But it's not a nonsense argument.
The "first generation" of US antitrust rules were built around emergent giant of those times. Oil and it's transportation. Shiping. Infrastructure. Big, megalithic chunks of a maturing manufacturing economy, especially bottlenecks.
New era of commerce, new "trusts." New concentrations of influence that change the rules of the game in a corrupting way.
IDK if I'd frame it exactly the same way. Personally, I don't think we did the best job on the last generation of trusts. Data is referred to a bit to vaguely for my taste. I agree with you that working with a concept (trusts) that's nt ideal in the first place. But it's not a nonsense argument.