Antitrust regulation will not curb surveillance-capitalist extraction

Evidence

It is important to say—and we will revisit this theme more than once—that regulatory interventions designed to constrain Google’s monopoly practices are likely to have little effect on the fundamental operations of this market form. New supply routes are continuously discovered, opened, and secured. Dispossession activities are compelled to circumvent every obstacle and will continue to do so, short of a genuine existential threat. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the law-merchant/Fouquet material: extralegal institutions survive regulatory attempts because they serve economic imperatives; also relevant to the reader’s prior point that failed trust is answered with more trust, not less. — connects to: General data-protection frameworks cannot challenge extractive data economies. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 555; Antitrust law’s presumptions cannot be isolated from prevailing economic theory — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1146; FTC enforcement against surveillance capitalism cannot succeed because market-imperative mandates trump compliance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 499 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Antitrust law’s presumptions cannot be isolated from prevailing economic theory #expands (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1146