Burda Board Member Welte on Spahn’s Ominous Pact with Google
“At the latest at this point, alarm bells should ring for everyone who follows the debate about the exploitation of monopoly positions in the digital space. Because while fair rules of play are being fought for in Brussels with the Digital Markets Act, which should finally ensure non-discriminatory access to monopoly-like digital platforms, the federal government is tinkering with its own digital state monopoly. Does the state really want to imitate the monopolistic business practices of the Googles of this world by law? The draft law can hardly be read any other way.”
– Philipp Welte, Burda Board Member and Vice President of the Association of German Magazine Publishers, in “Spahn’s Ominous Pact with Google – Is the State Press Coming Through the Side Entrance of Health Information?”, Guest commentary in Handelsblatt, March 26, 27, 28, 2021, No. 60
