{"id":210635,"date":"2022-10-15T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210635"},"modified":"2022-10-15T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:52:59","slug":"an-attempt-at-tilting-the-balance-of-power-how-the-government-is-trying-to-control-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/an-attempt-at-tilting-the-balance-of-power-how-the-government-is-trying-to-control-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"An attempt at tilting the balance of power: How the government is trying to control Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How rationale are the justifications given Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>An attempt at tilting the balance of power: How the government is trying to control Big Tech\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0The Indian Express<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a015th<\/sup> October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong>Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong>issues with the government policies in the digital sector<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Context: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>There has been attempts by the government to regulate each and every aspect of India\u2019s digital ecosystem.<\/p>\n

This is evident from the proposed draft telecom bill, the personal data protection bill, etc. that require to regulate the physical infrastructure that forms the backbone of Digital India.<\/p>\n

What are the aims of the government behind the regulation in digital sector?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First<\/strong>, Government\u2019s efforts are pointing towards localisation and giving preferences to domestic firms. It is bringing laws that promote them and limit the influence and dominance of Big Tech.<\/p>\n

For example<\/strong>, the draft telecom bill. It proposes to bring OTT communication platforms under it by providing similar rules like those governing the telecom operators.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, as per the government, it is trying to create a level playing field and address the concerns of national security.<\/p>\n

However, majority of the initiatives by the government are aimed at curbing the dominance of Big Tech instead of any economic logic.<\/p>\n

by the government?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The current policy differentiates between the domestic companies and foreign companies, only in the digital sector.<\/p>\n

If market concentration restricts competition, then the same argument should be extended to telecom operators. For example<\/strong>, ownership of spectrum is limited to few firms only.<\/p>\n

The provisions of different bills seem to increase the controlling power of the government rather than create a level playing field.<\/p>\n

This form of industrial policy which favours a few chosen domestic players while restricting foreign competition could lead inefficient and uncompetitive goods and services market.<\/p>\n

This would also go against the government\u2019s aim of the digital economy.<\/p>\n

If the concern is expansion of the foreign firms in India. <\/strong>Companies of Indian origin could be acquired by a foreign company or that receives funding from Big Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How rationale are the justifications given Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cAn attempt at tilting the balance of power: How the government is trying to control Big Tech\u201d published in\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0on\u00a015th October 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance:\u00a0issues with the government policies in the digital sector Context: \u00a0There has been attempts… Continue reading An attempt at tilting the balance of power: How the government is trying to control Big Tech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-210635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704763710},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}