Discussion on the Basis of Antitrust Laws Governing Data Circulation Restrictions
Giant Internet platforms,by building platform ecosystems,use network effects,economies of scale,and barriers to data acquisition to increase control over data circulation chan-nels,squeeze competitors'living space,and ultimately gain market power in the consumer and advertiser markets.The EU's"adequacy recognition"rules objectively limit the scope of data cir-culation,at the expense of the competitive space of Internet SMEs,and provide favorable objec-tive conditions for giant Internet platforms to implement data-related monopoly behaviors.There-fore,the data circulation restriction status caused by operators should become the normative premise for the antitrust law to adjust data-related monopoly behaviors.