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The EU is working on such a law, it's part of the Digital Markets Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-ma

• strogonoff 5y ago
  That’s promising, and I like that it explicitly applies to large online platforms. That said, > allow third parties to inter-operate with the gatekeeper’s own services in certain specific situations With “certain specific situations” presumably they are trying to make it viable for a monopoly to innovate, but as is it’s open to interpretation and may just result in platforms innovating specifically to maintain monopoly and the double-market scenario where they sell to advertisers and only care about users insofar as their eyeballs don’t leave en masse. IMO a good law would specifically aim to make it infeasible to operate as a double-sided market and pretend to offer a free product to the users while actually being supported by advertisers. I suspect this can only be achieved by an all-encompassing interoperation requirement (a.k.a. open API). In this document, however, “interoperability” seems to mean hardware and OS (?).
  • shafyy 5y ago
    Yes, I'm not sure what "specific sutations" refers to, but I don't think they mean hardware and OS. It remains to be seen if and it what specific form this proposed act will come to pass.
    • strogonoff 5y ago
      I looked at the document and interoperability is only mentioned with hardware and OS.