This policy confronts the concentration of economic and political power held by dominant digital platforms, whose business models rely on data extraction, behavioural manipulation, and monopolistic control over digital infrastructures. It establishes a regulatory framework built on: (i) structural separation and anti-monopoly rules to prevent market dominance in app stores, cloud services, search, and social media; (ii) interoperability and data-portability requirements enabling fair competition and user autonomy; and (iii) public-interest governance of foundational digital infrastructures to reduce dependency on private actors.
Implementation requires strong competition authorities, transparent auditing of platform practices, taxation of excessive digital rents, and international regulation to prevent jurisdiction shopping.
The policy goal is to curtail rentier power, and protect workers and consumers in the platform economy.
This policy is desirable because it dismantles structural market imbalances, limits corporate capture, and reorients digital innovation away from extractivism and toward the public good.
