The rise of digital platforms creates knowledge monopolies that threaten innovation. Their power derives from the imposition of data obligations and persistent coupling on platform participation and their usurpation of the rights to data created by other participants to facilitate information asymmetries. Knowledge monopolies can use machine learning to develop competitive insights unavailable to every other platform participant. This information asymmetry stifles innovation, stokes the growth of the monopoly, and reinforces its ascendency. National or regional governance structures, such as laws and regulatory authorities, constrain economic monopolies deemed not in the public interest. We argue the need for legislation and an associated regulatory mechanism to curtail coercive data obligations, control, eliminate data rights exploitation, and prevent mergers and acquisitions that could create or extend knowledge monopolies.

数字平台的兴起造成了威胁创新的知识垄断。他们的权力源于对平台参与施加数据义务和持久耦合，以及他们篡夺其他参与者创建的数据的权利，以促进信息不对称。知识垄断可以使用机器学习来开发其他平台参与者无法获得的竞争洞察力。这种信息不对称扼杀了创新，助长了垄断的发展，并加强了其优势地位。国家或地区治理结构，例如法律和监管机构，限制被认为不符合公共利益的经济垄断。我们认为需要立法和相关的监管机制来减少强制性数据义务，控制，消除数据权利利用，