Regulating Big Tech: Lessons from Around the World

Description

This conversation, co-sponsored by SIPA’s Technology Media and Communications specialization and Columbia World Projects, will lay the foundation for the 2023 Niejelow-Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum to consider new regulatory models for digital platforms in regions beyond the United States and Europe. The Digital Giants have become a source of global concern, both because of their market power and the “digital harms” to which they give rise. Yet regulation is not easy: democracies worry about the abridgment of free speech; while these Digital Giants are global, standards, market effects, and values are national and local. Are they too big, too complex, and too dynamic to regulate, with any such attempts threatening innovation? While the United States has yet to introduce new laws, Europe, Australia and China have forged ahead, with quite different models. The conversation will discuss the Center on Regulation in Europe’s (CERRE) report on prospects and frameworks for tech regulation and consider the global applicability of a broadened version of that framework.

Moderator: Merit Janow, Professor of Professional Practice in International Economic Law and International Affairs in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs; Dean Emerita of the Faculty of International and Public Affairs

Panelists:

Rod Sims, Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University; Former Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University

Bruno Liebhaberg, Founder and Director General, Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE)

Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Emerita, New York University School of Law