Raccomando questo paper, ottimo sia per l'impostazione generale e la visione, sia per il framing multidisciplinare, sia per l'esposizione. Bietti, Elettra, A Genealogy of Digital Platform Regulation (June 3, 2021). <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3859487> [...] At its core, this Article is about three themes: regulatory deadlock in digital markets, neoliberal capture, and the need to deconstruct and historicize before reconstructing and imagining new digital spaces. I discussed the specificities and limits of neoliberal visions of platform regulation, particularly that they obscure the way private digital power manifests, escapes regulatory scrutiny, and can lead to harm to humans and ecosystems in ways that partly repeat the de-regulatory and cyberutopian errors of the past. I also began to show that any vision – regardless of whether it can be characterized as libertarian, liberal, neoliberal, or critical – is partly determinative of future trajectories and partly indeterminate and malleable. In other words, each of us lawyers, activists, policy-makers, scholars, students is constrained by our context but retains agency and the ability to change states of affairs. This leads me, in this concluding section, to a few final thoughts that will serve as guiding threads for moving forward. I have emphasized throughout this Article a distinction between libertarian, liberal, and critical perspectives, and more concretely between liberal and neoliberal understandings of platform regulation on the one hand, and critical and other egalitarian and socialist understandings on the other. I identified these categories for expository clarity and to show that noble ideas such as law and freedom can be instrumentalized for wrongful purposes if we fail to pay attention to their normative roots and effects in concrete circumstances. Unless subjected to iterative and situated moral scrutiny, these ideas risk acting as empty facades that favor powerful interests. Moving forward requires a methodological shift that entails two steps. First, it is essential to look at the past – the way past visions and attempts evolved, their positive and negative repercussions – to avoid repeating mistakes and to situate oneself more precisely and contextually in a long-term process of regulatory progression. Today, because of past failures to look at history and context, the primary options on the platform regulation table fall within the neoliberal playbook. Antonio Gramsci wrote that “[a] main obstacle to change is the reproduction by the dominated forces of elements of the hegemonic ideology. It is an important and urgent task to develop alternative interpretations of reality.”[...]