|
Abstract Internet platforms' anticompetitive practice has drawn great attention, and forced the central government to announce “strengthening anti-monopoly and preventing orderless capital expansion”. However, the application of the Anti-monopoly Law in the Internet domain is confronted with enforcement difficulties. The analysis on Tencent's suspension of Douyin weblinks demonstrates that although Tencent might be dominant in the markets of instant messenger and short-text-based social networking, and its practice of limiting forwarding external links of Douyin falls into the scope of refusal to deal, the conduct nevertheless does not produce anti-competitive effects, and hence does not constitute abusive conduct within the Anti-monopoly Law. Internet platforms' anti-competitive practice challenges the existing analytical framework of the Anti-monopoly Law from many angles. The proposed Digital Market Act in the EU offers a new perspective for the regulation of Internet platforms in China.
|
|
Received: 10 February 2021
Published: 15 April 2021
|
|
|
|
Corresponding Authors:
HOU Liyang
E-mail: liyang.hou@sjtu.edu.cn
|
|
|
|
2021, Vol. 41 
浙公网安备 33011802000512号