In Britain, a Middle Way for Reining In Big Tech

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A U.K. government-appointed panel seeks to bolster competition in big tech without invasive regulation

Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Google reached the pinnacle of business through relentless innovation, yet from that pinnacle they now stand accused by many of strangling competition and consumer choice. Can the latter be curbed without sacrificing the former?

Britain has an answer. Early Wednesday in London, a government-appointed panel of experts released a carefully calibrated proposal designed to contain big tech’s threat to competition while keeping the government’s hand on the industry and the internet as light as...

 

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