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Big Tech Companies Pose Risk to Free, Fair Digital Market, Says Sitharaman

The New Indian Express Chennai

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May 21, 2025

FINANCE minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that emergence of gatekeeper platforms has challenged free and fair digital markets even as she calls for global cooperation and agile regulation to tackle the rise of cross-border digital monopolies demands.

- ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU @ New Delhi

The finance minister was speaking at the 16th Annual Day Celebrations of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) here on Tuesday.

Gatekeeper platforms are large tech companies with significant market dominance, and which control a large number of digital services across the globe.

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