From: The Hill | Hillicon Valley
BY HARPER NEIDIG, ALI BRELAND AND OLIVIA BEAVERS
FTC TAKING NEW LOOK AT TECH: FTC Chairman Joseph Simons convened reporters on Wednesday to announce that the agency will hold a series of public hearings to examine whether it needs to adjust its enforcement policies in order to effectively police internet platform companies.
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“It’s the network effects,” Simons said. “It’s the fact that they’re a two-sided platform. It’s the interaction between privacy and competition. And it’s all new so it makes it very appropriate to have this be the subject of hearings and get input on that.”
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