Todd (@todddavi.es)

Competition law PhD candidate ⚖️
Previously a Software Engineer in Big Tech 🧑‍💻
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[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

I am ramping down my account on here in favour of a different platform (you know which). The fact that I can't write which platform I'm migrating to without this post being algorithmically buried pretty much explains why.

See you on the other side!

https://t.co/J0MRDjfT99

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

@JuanDGut Here's a competition law starter pack for you :) https://t.co/sdAZhv627Y

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

For competition/antitrust law people considering migrating to an alternative social media platform, I made a "starter pack" of accounts to follow. 🛫👋

https://t.co/MGkMqYq6cI

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

Looking forward to presenting "New Platform Regulations, Error Costs and Democracy", coauthored with @spence_cohen , at UCL later today. Signups are still open!

https://t.co/EBN9K99RYH

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

Isn't it annoying when people talk about 'solutions' to social/economic/legal 'problems'? Solutions are not the answer!

Brian Fath, Taha Loghmani and I wrote a short piece exploring why, and propose a 'challenge' and 'response' approach instead. https://t.co/Iv7WOO1r31

[UCL Centre for Law, Economics & Society (CLES) @UCL_CLES]

Massive congratulations to @UCLLaws @CLES founding director @IoannisLianos !

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

I've never seen a competition conference like this, with participants like this. It's honestly so cool. 🧑‍💻💭

If you're in or around Brazil, and curious about where we're going in the next decade(s) with competition law & policy, then you've got to take a look!

[Ioannis Lianos @IoannisLianos]

New @UCL_CLES @Inclusive_Comp and FGV event on 'Algorithmic Dreams Meet Competition Law and Regulation' https://t.co/B5l4IHpB3b

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This woman alone fighting against the Goliath

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

Links:
The proposed remedy framework: https://t.co/U7qFVJtIKU
Michael's pre-print: https://t.co/NbmQhgGMqe
My pre-print (revisions coming soon) on splitting Google's ad network from its search engine: https://t.co/EnI1R8mFzu

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

The DoJ released its remedy framework for the US Google case suggesting a data sharing (see image). Doesn't seem like a great idea to me for a few reasons (cont...)

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

That said, the last proposed remedy (relating to advertising) could be quite exciting. Separating out Google's search engine from its ad network is a great idea. The remedy could go further (letting end users choose which ad network to use), but this is a start.

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

…and include mismanagement, embracing AI in core products too early, the creeping complexity of running a large organisation, enshittification (cc @doctorow), etc.

For more accurate "in the trenches" views from eng people, see: https://t.co/Xk718ZdFdo,
https://t.co/DFFINDg1jo

[Todd (@todddavi.es) @daviest_]

The Economist seems to think that "Antitrust intervention may have sped [Google]’s decline." Umm what?

Antitrust intervention has barely touched Google, absent fines that are small relative to its balance sheet. The real causes of decline are well known in the tech industry, 1/2

[Cristina Caffarra @Caffar3Cristina]

What’s truly terrible about this article, @TheEconomist, is not that it rehashes ancient talking points from Google’s operatives on breakup. It’s the “AI solutionism”, here comes AI magic and all will be competitive again. One more AI deception that governments are falling for.

[UCL Faculty of Laws @UCLLaws]

UCL Laws PhD candidates Weronika Chrzanowska & Todd Davies have each been awarded a UCL Research Excellence Scholarship for Cross-disciplinary Training 🌟

These scholarships will support them in continuing their doctoral studies in other UCL departments https://t.co/pqrhVbmVMc