IDG Contributor Network: Today’s competitive digital marketplace will drive policy changes

In an almost perfect illustration of the new competition policy thinking that is gaining ground among advocates and antitrust practitioners, Tim Wu recently advised his New York Times readers “Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace it.” What we need, he said, are new “social media platforms that are fundamentally different in their incentives and dedication to protecting user data.”Today’s digital marketplace is open enough to allow the emergence of social media se