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Regulating Big Tech

From Vox, Emily Stewart on the $120-billion reason we can’t expect Facebook to police itself. Facebook could disappear and the web wouldn’t change much: If we’re thinking about monopoly power, Google is an almost infinitely bigger deal than Facebook. A long-overdue blueprint for regulating Big Tech: Senator Mark Warner has 20 ideas for fixing the problems with Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants — will Congress listen? K. Sabeel Rahman on artificial sovereigns: A quasi-constitutional moment for tech? Mark Fenwick (Kyushu), Wulf A. Kaal (St. Thomas), and Erik P.M. Vermeulen (Tilburg): Regulation Tomorrow: What Happens When Technology is Faster Than the Law? The tech backlash we really need: Silicon Valley will only be strengthened by its present scandals unless we ask deeper questions.