I am ramping down my account on here in favour of a different platform (you know which). The fact that I can't write which platform I'm migrating to without this post being algorithmically buried pretty much explains why. See you on the other side! https://t.co/J0MRDjfT99

"The urgency of Europe’s creep towards plutocracy calls for a similarly urgent response." TODD DAVIES and SPENCER COHEN explain why competition law can play a key role in protecting democracy. https://t.co/WpPo7uaY6V @alemannoEU @JackVeraldi @DemocracyR

For competition/antitrust law people considering migrating to an alternative social media platform, I made a "starter pack" of accounts to follow. 🛫👋 https://t.co/MGkMqYq6cI

Looking forward to presenting "New Platform Regulations, Error Costs and Democracy", coauthored with @spence_cohen , at UCL later today. Signups are still open! https://t.co/EBN9K99RYH

Isn't it annoying when people talk about 'solutions' to social/economic/legal 'problems'? Solutions are not the answer! Brian Fath, Taha Loghmani and I wrote a short piece exploring why, and propose a 'challenge' and 'response' approach instead.

Massive congratulations to @UCLLaws @CLES founding director @IoannisLianos !

I've never seen a competition conference like this, with participants like this. It's honestly so cool. 🧑‍💻💭 If you're in or around Brazil, and curious about where we're going in the next decade(s) with competition law & policy, then you've got to take a look!

This woman alone fighting against the Goliath

Yesterday 44 of the world’s leading climate scientists wrote an open letter about collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s circulation (AMOC) When I interviewed one of them about the consequences of AMOC reaching a tipping point he could barely keep it together. 🧵

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Links: The proposed remedy framework: https://t.co/U7qFVJtIKU Michael's pre-print: https://t.co/NbmQhgGMqe My pre-print (revisions coming soon) on splitting Google's ad network from its search engine:

That said, the last proposed remedy (relating to advertising) could be quite exciting. Separating out Google's search engine from its ad network is a great idea. The remedy could go further (letting end users choose which ad network to use), but this is a start.

3. Also drawing from @mikarv's paper (link at the end), an API would let other firms consume Google's data, but it wouldn't let them run real-world experiments on the products that generate the data. The value of data is often not intrinsic, but rather derived from experiments!

2. Firms consuming these data feeds would end up tightly coupled with Google. As Google's products change & develop, the proposed API would also change, so consuming firms would always be responding to Google's product design. As @mikarv says:

1. Such a remedy would risk creating an industrial architecture where other firms build their business models around access to Google's data. This risks (further) institutionalising Google's monopoly and entrenching its dominance. cc @Caffar3Cristina

The DoJ released its remedy framework for the US Google case suggesting a data sharing (see image). Doesn't seem like a great idea to me for a few reasons (cont...)

Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Hal Varian for pioneering the extractive, locked-in platform logic behind Google’s adtech business.

…and include mismanagement, embracing AI in core products too early, the creeping complexity of running a large organisation, enshittification (cc @doctorow), etc. For more accurate "in the trenches" views from eng people, see: https://t.co/Xk718ZdFdo, https://t.co/DFFINDg1jo

The Economist seems to think that "Antitrust intervention may have sped [Google]’s decline." Umm what? Antitrust intervention has barely touched Google, absent fines that are small relative to its balance sheet. The real causes of decline are well known in the tech industry, 1/2