Algorithmic Conspiracy Subjective Construction of Connection Criteria:From Subject Dependency to Algorithmic Interaction
The Antitrust Guidelines in the Field of Platform Economy introduces the"information exchange"and"knowledge rule"in the judicial practice of the United States and the European Union re-spectively as the criteria for determining the subjective connection of the operator of the Internet conspir-acy,thus bringing the issue of algorithmic conspiracy to the forefront of the practice and theory of China's antitrust law.Theoretically,algorithmic conspiracy can be divided into messenger type conspiracy,hub-and-spoke agreement type conspiracy,predictable agent type conspiracy and electronic eye type conspir-acy.The formation of anti-competitive conspiracies of each type depends on the degree of interdepen-dence between agents,and the widespread use of algorithmic procedures has profoundly changed the in-terdependence between agents.According to the game-theoretic explanation of the interdependence rela-tionship,in the algorithmic era the interdependence between operators has changed from"human-hu-man"interdependence to algorithmic interaction under the"human-machine"control relationship.The general criterion of algorithmic conspiracy can be constructed by combining the human-machine control relationship and the algorithmic interaction relationship to construct the criterion of subjective linkage of operators.