bwaber@bookwyrm.social reviewed Digital Empires by Anu Bradford
A Good International Legal Review Paired with An Already Out of Date and Sparsely Researched Polemic
3 stars
This is essentially two books - one is a great one that analyzes the dominant international technology regulatory regimes and their strengths and drawbacks, while the other is a newspaper editorial from 2023. The first is informative and thought-provoking, and I also liked Bradford's identification of the fragmented nature of the EU's financial markets as the primary cause of its anemic tech output. I don't really like opinion pieces though, and even if that's your speed these sections are already woefully out of date and mostly irrelevant. Beyond that, there's a myopic focus on social media technologies, which despite being highly visible is an extremely small part of the overall tech ecosystem. If you skip those sections I still think this is a worthwhile read though.