Professor Mark Patterson was interviewed by Bloomberg Radio about the possible regulatory challenges that the technology giants may face in the near future.
[O]ver the last decade, these tech companies have been given more protection and more freedom than the analogous companies in the traditional media industry and at some point, that’s likely to end. I mean that policy was adopted to try to promote internet commerce, and I think we all recognize that internet commerce is a viable proposition at this point and so it’s may be time to make the regulations of online and offline media more comparable.