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Comment: Decentralized DMA gives EU best hope of bringing Big Tech to heel

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts ( June 28, 2021, 12:51 GMT | Comment) -- Allowing national competition authorities to enforce the Digital Markets Act is probably the European Commission's best bet of ensuring a harmonized approach to regulating Big Tech. Besides multiplying the amount of work that can be done, sharing enforcement power will keep national regulators working under the umbrella of the new EU law. A centralized approach would risk them seeking workarounds, as the experience of the GDPR demonstrates.Competition enforcers in Europe’s 27 member states want a greater slice of the forthcoming enforcement action against tech gatekeepers. It is probably in the European Commission's interest that they get it....

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