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SXSW Panel

For me, SXSW19 began with an interesting panel on the business models

Naturally, the conversation drifted toward policy and Elizabeth Warren’s recent remarks

While I agree wholly with the need to protect competition, and therefore capitalism, I do not think that breaking companies up is the way forward

Cindy Cohn said (correctly) that current anti-trust law is not suited to the demands of the digital age.

Hence I asked the panel about the alternative

Don’t break them up, open them up.

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