Metaverse Competition Issues Need Addressing, EU Antitrust Chief Says

Metaverse Competition Issues Need Addressing, EU Antitrust Chief Says

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Christy Goldsmith Romero

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Christy Goldsmith Romero

Commissioner

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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Explore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.

Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.

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Christy Goldsmith Romero

Commissioner

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Explore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.

Consensus 2023 Logo

Christy Goldsmith Romero

Commissioner

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consensus 2023 Logo

Explore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.

The EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager wants to ensure healthy competition exists within metaverses as the European Commission prepares to publish a strategy for online virtual worlds in May.

“It is already time for us to start asking what healthy competition should look like in the Metaverse,” Vestager, who is European Commissioner for competition and digital affairs, said at an event in Brussels according to a published text. She also referred to the impact of artificial intelligence service ChatGPT.

The EU has recently legislated to stop online giants such as Meta from blocking smaller rivals, and officials have already queried whether the metaverse will need specific protections for competition, as well as discrimination and safety.


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Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.


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