Fresh start for Digital Platforms in an unfriendly world?

It was believed that digital platforms would dissolve longstanding physical and economic barriers, launching a plethora of new products and even whole markets. And they have revolutionised our world. Yet, somewhere along the line that hopeful narrative seems to have gotten lost.  Increasingly, governments, pressure groups and regulators around the world view platforms as nodes of unparalleled, and currently untrammelled, market and social power.