Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Katharine Trendacosta
“Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation — in the form of ‘kill zones,’ where major corporations buy up new entrants to a market before they can compete with them — has been easy to find. Consumer harms have been harder to quantify, since a lot of services the Big Tech companies offer are ‘free.’ This is why we must move beyond price as the major determinator of consumer harm. And once that’s done, it’s easier to see even greater benefits competition brings to the greater internet ecosystem.” (10/18/24)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/flourishing-internet-depends-competition