Addressing the next wave of Internet regulation: Toward a workable principle for nondiscrimination
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Hahn, Robert; Litan, Robert; Singer, Hal
署名单位：
University of Manchester; University of Oxford; Georgetown University; Brookings Institution
刊物名称：
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
ISSN/ISSBN：
1748-5983
DOI：
10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01086.x
发表日期：
2010
页码：
365-382
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摘要：
The ultimate formulation of the Federal Communications Commission's nondiscrimination on the Internet principle could have a significant impact on economic welfare and on innovation. In this article, we explain the economics of discrimination as it applies to the Internet, and we offer a new approach for identifying anticompetitive discrimination. Our proposal would require a complaining content provider to prove (i) the broadband service provider has discriminated in favor of some affiliated content provider that is similarly situated to the independent content provider; (ii) such disparate treatment is based on affiliation and not on some other consideration; (iii) the independent content provider has been unreasonably restrained in its ability to compete; and (iv) the harm it suffers as a result of the discrimination would likely redound to the harm of broadband users.
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