Why Regulators Are Rethinking the Risks of Big Tech Platforms

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According to Agata Ferreira from Warsaw University of Technology, the biggest risks in today’s digital world are no longer just about harmful behavior by companies or individuals. Instead, many of the dangers come from how dominant digital systems are structured. Centralized platforms often create lock-in, dependency, data concentration, and single points of failure that grow more powerful as the systems scale.

This realization is shifting how policymakers think about regulation. Rather than only punishing bad actors, governments are increasingly trying to manage the systemic risks created by massive digital platforms. Ferreira argues that when communication, data storage, and coordination are concentrated in a handful of tech companies, the risks become structural—making them much harder to fix with traditional regulation alone.

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the dependency issue is real imagine how much breaks if one major platform goes down