Seize the Means of Prediction! Data, Domination, and Antitrust
2025-05-16
Alphabet, Meta, and others collect data about us to maximize the effectiveness of ads on their platforms. Comparatively little philosophical attention, however, has been paid to worries about this business model expressed by an influential group of antitrust scholars known as the ‘Neo‐Brandeisians’. My aim is to begin giving their worries the philosophical attention they are due.