Simonetta Vezzoso
@wavesblog.bsky.social
https://competitionwave.blogspot.com/ (daily reading list and more)
How long before they conclude that the EU is being mismanaged and feel compelled to come to our “rescue”?
El derecho internacional no trata de premiar la virtud ni de castigar la mala conducta.
Existe para limitar el poder y proteger a los débiles frente a los fuertes.
Cuando la fuerza sustituye a las normas, la soberanía y la legitimidad se erosionan. 2/2
Existe para limitar el poder y proteger a los débiles frente a los fuertes.
Cuando la fuerza sustituye a las normas, la soberanía y la legitimidad se erosionan. 2/2
January 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
How long before they conclude that the EU is being mismanaged and feel compelled to come to our “rescue”?
Remind me, how much did Big Tech spend?
January 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Remind me, how much did Big Tech spend?
Reposted by Simonetta Vezzoso
January 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
...not perfect, but
January 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
...not perfect, but
"Digital platforms are now among the most powerful institutions in our societies. The question is not whether they should be subject to rules, but whether those rules serve democratic values or merely private interests"
The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms
Bertrand Badré, Guillaume Klossa and Margrethe Vestager rebut the Trump administration’s incendiary claim that the European Union censors online content.
www.project-syndicate.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM
"Digital platforms are now among the most powerful institutions in our societies. The question is not whether they should be subject to rules, but whether those rules serve democratic values or merely private interests"
The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms
Bertrand Badré, Guillaume Klossa and Margrethe Vestager rebut the Trump administration’s incendiary claim that the European Union censors online content.
www.project-syndicate.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
"By exploring the ways that Western legal systems empower individuals to advance their interests against society, Katharina Pistor reveals how capitalism is an unsustainable system designed to foster inequity" yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It
A fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take Even though capitalism h...
yalebooks.yale.edu
January 2, 2026 at 10:50 PM
"By exploring the ways that Western legal systems empower individuals to advance their interests against society, Katharina Pistor reveals how capitalism is an unsustainable system designed to foster inequity" yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
"The scrubbing, Meta teams explained in documents regarding their efforts to reduce scam discoverability, sought to make problematic content “not findable” for “regulators, investigators and journalists.”"
We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...
www.reuters.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:46 AM
"The scrubbing, Meta teams explained in documents regarding their efforts to reduce scam discoverability, sought to make problematic content “not findable” for “regulators, investigators and journalists.”"
Memories of Giphy and Within being raised? Times when competition authorities at least tried to apply merger control to Big Tech?
"Selling to Meta gives Manus 🤚 access to distribution channels such as WhatsApp and Instagram and a well-funded owner able to help cover computing and infrastructure costs" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China
The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Memories of Giphy and Within being raised? Times when competition authorities at least tried to apply merger control to Big Tech?
"Selling to Meta gives Manus 🤚 access to distribution channels such as WhatsApp and Instagram and a well-funded owner able to help cover computing and infrastructure costs" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China
The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Selling to Meta gives Manus 🤚 access to distribution channels such as WhatsApp and Instagram and a well-funded owner able to help cover computing and infrastructure costs" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...
"Meta says it plans to continue to operate and sell Manus’s service and integrate it into its suite of social-media products" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
Exclusive | Meta Buys AI Startup Manus for More Than $2 Billion
The deal is one of the first in which a major U.S. tech company has bought a startup with Chinese roots.
www.wsj.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"Meta says it plans to continue to operate and sell Manus’s service and integrate it into its suite of social-media products" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
Orthogonal to any type of digital regulation
"“President Trump is leveraging his close relationships with private-sector titans to cement American technological dominance for the rest of the 21st century,” she said" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/t...
From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Orthogonal to any type of digital regulation
"“President Trump is leveraging his close relationships with private-sector titans to cement American technological dominance for the rest of the 21st century,” she said" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/t...
From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"“President Trump is leveraging his close relationships with private-sector titans to cement American technological dominance for the rest of the 21st century,” she said" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/t...
"Because history is insufficiently studied, because perspectives are limited by human lifespans, because the same mistakes are repeated over and over,momentous events are hailed as watersheds, landmarks and epochal inflection points.Almost invariably, they’re not" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Through the lens of history, Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall
Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawns, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"Because history is insufficiently studied, because perspectives are limited by human lifespans, because the same mistakes are repeated over and over,momentous events are hailed as watersheds, landmarks and epochal inflection points.Almost invariably, they’re not" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Simonetta Vezzoso
I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity
Although not yet final, a DMA ruling requires Android to allow the use of third-party email services...💪🏽
"Wir kennen das Playbook: Nach der Verweigerung der Einreise in die USA kommt die Aufkündigung der Zugänge zu US-amerikanischen Online-Diensten - von GMail bis MS 365, von Amazon bis Paypal" #HataAid www.linkedin.com/posts/jhorst...
#wirsindhateaid #wirsindhateaid #opensource #digitalesouveränität #wirsindhateaid | Jutta Horstmann | 35 comments
#WirSindHateAid - das ist diesmal keine freundliche, aber etwas hohle Phrase.
Denn gestern trafen die US-Sanktionen die Richter:innen des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, heute die Geschäftsführeri...
www.linkedin.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Although not yet final, a DMA ruling requires Android to allow the use of third-party email services...💪🏽
"Wir kennen das Playbook: Nach der Verweigerung der Einreise in die USA kommt die Aufkündigung der Zugänge zu US-amerikanischen Online-Diensten - von GMail bis MS 365, von Amazon bis Paypal" #HataAid www.linkedin.com/posts/jhorst...
#wirsindhateaid #wirsindhateaid #opensource #digitalesouveränität #wirsindhateaid | Jutta Horstmann | 35 comments
#WirSindHateAid - das ist diesmal keine freundliche, aber etwas hohle Phrase.
Denn gestern trafen die US-Sanktionen die Richter:innen des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs, heute die Geschäftsführeri...
www.linkedin.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Wir kennen das Playbook: Nach der Verweigerung der Einreise in die USA kommt die Aufkündigung der Zugänge zu US-amerikanischen Online-Diensten - von GMail bis MS 365, von Amazon bis Paypal" #HataAid www.linkedin.com/posts/jhorst...
Still running my own competition policy blog as if it were 2007 - and personally happy with it
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Still running my own competition policy blog as if it were 2007 - and personally happy with it
"A sad story of corruption is not new, or unusual. What I believe is new and unusual is a popular recognition that it is systemic in the American economy, and a widespread revulsion towards the people doing it" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-f...
In 2026, Will Americans Finally Turn Against Oligarchs?
Americans are noticing private equity roll-ups in everything from youth sports to fire trucks to big tech. And they really don't like it. Is a genuine anti-monopoly revolt finally brewing in 2026?
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"A sad story of corruption is not new, or unusual. What I believe is new and unusual is a popular recognition that it is systemic in the American economy, and a widespread revulsion towards the people doing it" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-f...
"If Apple’s appeal fails, every person in the UK who made App Store purchases between 2015 and 2024 could be entitled to a payout" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Apple seeks to appeal against £1.5bn ruling it overcharged UK customers
If appeal fails, every person in UK who made App Store purchases between 2015 and 2024 could be entitled to compensation
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"If Apple’s appeal fails, every person in the UK who made App Store purchases between 2015 and 2024 could be entitled to a payout" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Greedy sociopaths" - sounds like it, yeah www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’
Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountability
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Greedy sociopaths" - sounds like it, yeah www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Europe must be more effective next year to ensure the “competitiveness, security, values that are very much the blood of this mandate”, Ribera said" indeed, this year was a half-flop if I may www.ft.com/content/e04e...
EU will lose ‘race to the bottom’ on regulation, says competition chief
Teresa Ribera says Europe’s competitiveness depends on resisting calls to roll back rules
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Europe must be more effective next year to ensure the “competitiveness, security, values that are very much the blood of this mandate”, Ribera said" indeed, this year was a half-flop if I may www.ft.com/content/e04e...
His damnatio memoriae can't arrive soon enough, honestly
December 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
His damnatio memoriae can't arrive soon enough, honestly
Anything about the DMA and AI, Pope Leo?
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Anything about the DMA and AI, Pope Leo?