Are We Making Too Many Errors?

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There are certainly aspects of the current law that need to be rethought. But the law as it is written, written, is actually quite general in the way it's worded. It could cover pretty much everything we have been discussing to day that's relevant for competition law. I've got one final point. And for elizabeth not this is about your former employers. When you see mark zuckeberg on the fourth of january in his new year's a message to everyone inside and outside the company say, "We currently make too many errors inforcing our policies" Is they getting their comupane now? Are they realizing too late the mistakes they should have seen coming

With so much data and power centralised in the hands of a few West Coast companies, the tech giants have become a serious threat to our basic freedoms and must be broken up. That’s the argument that was made at this major Intelligence Squared debate by the FT’s global business columnist Rana Foroohar and by businessman and former chairman of Channel 4 Luke Johnson. But others would argue that it’s all too easy to make the tech giants a scapegoat for the inevitable upheavals caused by the digital revolution. The real winners of this revolution are not the tech companies but us, the users. Who could now imagine living without the services of Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? That’s the case that was made in our debate by former head of Facebook’s European politics and government division Elizabeth Linder and competition law expert Pinar Akman. Who's right and who's wrong?

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