Mark MacCarthy is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, & Technology Program. A prolific writer on tech policy issues, he was formerly a Congressional staffer and public policy advocate for the broadcasting, financial services, and tech industries.

Foreword

Introduction

Dominance in Digital Industries

Centrality of Digital Services

Privacy Challenges

Content Moderation Challenges

The Regulatory Solutions

The Digital Regulator

Coda: From Here to There

The Anti-Monopoly Moment

Promoting Competition in the Telephone Industry

Preventing Monopolization in Computer Software

The New Pro-Competitive Tools

Amazon's Antitrust Troubles

The Google-Apple Mobile App Duopoly

Google's Search Monopoly

The Ad-Tech Conundrum

Facebook's Mergers

Privacy and Content Moderation in Digital Mergers

Data Portability, Interoperability and Nondiscrimination for Social Media

Regulatory Forbearance

Conclusion

Introduction

What is Privacy?

Limitations of Privacy as Individual Control

Legal Bases for Data Use

Data Minimization and Purpose Limitation

Ban on Abusive System Design

Fiduciary Duties of Care and Loyalty

Restricted Use

Expert and Balanced Enforcement

First Amendment Issues

Coda

Introduction

User Transparency

Transparency Reporting

Access to Social Media Data for Researchers

Regulation of Social Media Algorithms

A Dispute Resolution Program for Social Media Companies

Notice Liability

Political Pluralism

Social Media Duties to Political Candidates

First Amendment Issues

Introduction

Defining Digital Industries

Defining Dominance and Centrality

Agency Structure and Jurisdiction

Exclusive jurisdiction

Independence

Limited Authority

Accountability

Co-Regulation

Internal Organization

Resources

Other Policy Issues

Regulatory Capture

Balancing Agency Missions

Judicial Review

Chevron Deference

Non-Delegation

Implications for the Digital Regulator

Conclusion

Introduction

Competition Policy

Privacy

Content Moderation

Coda