Regulating digital platforms for content


Channeling efforts towards introducing a new regulatory framework to arrest the continuous decline of income for the media industry should take precedence above all else.

BEING pro-market and pro-business would likely mean preferring minimal regulation. The more regulation, the more it impedes market forces. It goes against the theory of the free market and survival of the fittest.

Hence, highly regulated markets are not the preferred approach when it comes to growing an economy.

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