Michael J. Boskin is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was Chairman of George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993, and headed the so-called Boskin Commission, a congressional advisory body that highlighted errors in official US inflation estimates.
斯坦福—两年前,我确定地认为,各种因素的综合作用会让更多的人要求监管科技公司,特别是科技巨头亚马逊、苹果、Facebook和谷歌。当这一幕发生时,我在当时指出,监管政策需要实现一个敏感的平衡,既要降低科技最有害的副作用,也要允许科技公司继续改善人们的生活。
如今,那天已经到来,而实现这一平衡将非常困难。民主政府多年来仁慈地对这些公司视而不见,现在开始制定各种政策组合来监管它们。风险在于仓促决策会矫枉过正,弊大于利,如非故意地遏制创新和竞争。
至少有四个不同的监管政策问题需要解决:隐私、市场权力、言论自由和审查(包括不恰当内容),以及国家安全和执法。因此,科技行业政策必须精准对标,仔细制定,尽量减少副作用。
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