Behind the polite speeches and economic jargon, top officials are signaling that big shifts in enforcement policy could be coming. “I am old enough to have witnessed dramatic changes in antitrust policy and enforcement during my own career.”[How should the feds regulate tech? And do antitrust regulators even belong in the equation, or should somebody else in government take responsibility? “My read of the evidence is, at the aggregate, we don’t know much that’s relevant to the formation of antitrust policy,” said Joshua Wright, a Republican former FTC commissioner. This is particularly troublesome, experts say, when it comes to connecting allegations of political bias on tech platforms to antitrust law.

Source: Washington Post September 14, 2018 17:02 UTC