Abstract
Where the Gilded Age Rockefeller oil monopoly once spurred antitrust reforms in the United States, the tech giants of Silicon Valley have ignited a similar frenzy for reform in legislators and populist scholars today. The unprecedented and rapid growth of digital platforms such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon has forced policymakers to confront the question of whether traditional antitrust law is sufficient to deal with the new-age giants. This has spurred calls on both sides of the political aisle for increased antitrust enforcement, leading Missouri Senator Josh Hawley to go as far as to argue that “[t]he Big Tech companies are the railroad monopolies, Standard Oil and the newspaper trust rolled into one.”
Recommended Citation
Eric H. Siemens,
Platform Privileges: A Framework for How Antitrust Law Should Police Digital Platforms’ Use of Material Non-Public Information,
90 Mo. L. Rev.
(2026)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol90/iss4/14