Thursday, April 02, 2026

How to Waste a Perfectly Good Ex Ante Regulation


One almost misses those conferences on the differences between the DMA and the DMCCA. They already felt faintly like a waste of time when they were held. Now, however, we may be in a position to organize new ones on a more revealing question: which ex ante digital regime is being underused more impressively, and by what means.

As regards the DMA, the list is already rather substantial. Yet the DMCCA may prove even more striking. if the framework ends up relying on a succession of non-binding commitments, one is entitled to wonder whether the most that can be asked of Big Tech is, in effect, whatever Big Tech is willing to offer. 

The BASED Act Comes for Big Tech

G. Tan, here

Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google

 VB, here

UK Regulator Probes Microsoft While Backing Voluntary Cloud Rules

 M. Kirkwood, here

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy

 Rollingstone, here

The iterative nature of digital regulation: stakeholder-driven enforcement in the DMA and DMCCA

 J. van den Boom et al., here