“Regulation can be a difficult balancing act,” Parks Associates‘ director of research Brett Sappington told VentureBeat. On the one hand, “regulators want to prevent huge players from squeezing smaller local companies out of the market, [and] protect the rights and privacy of consumers of consumers.”

On the other hand, he said, “it may be large companies that have the scale to really drive development of new technologies and services.”

From the article "Germany to Google: maybe you should be treated like an electric company" by Barry Levine.

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