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* '''While Congress could change the law to deal with these companies, this route is probably hopeless. So, the route currently remains the same as they took with Microsoft back then, but it is a very difficult fight to make and win since the due diligence needed is challenging for DOJ and FTC (they need good economics, good documents, good witnesses, good lawyering, etc)''' (56:00). | * '''While Congress could change the law to deal with these companies, this route is probably hopeless. So, the route currently remains the same as they took with Microsoft back then, but it is a very difficult fight to make and win since the due diligence needed is challenging for DOJ and FTC (they need good economics, good documents, good witnesses, good lawyering, etc)''' (56:00). | ||
=== <big> | === <big>New Bills Proposals</big> === | ||
==== Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act ==== | ==== <big>Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act</big> ==== | ||
Reintroduced on 05/09/2024 | |||
==== American Innovation and Choice Online Act ==== | <u>Sponsors</u> | ||
Amy Klobuchar (D)*, Richard Blumenthal (D), Cory Booker (D), Martin Heinrich (D), Mazie Hirono (D), Ed Markey (D), Brian Schatz (D), Tina Smith (D), Mark Warner (D), Peter Welch (D), Sheldon Whitehouse (D), Ron Wyden (D), | |||
==== <big>American Innovation and Choice Online Act</big> ==== | |||
The '''American Innovation and Choice Online Act''' aimed to curb anti-competitive practices by major online platforms. '''It had bi partisan support and it still failed to even reached congress.''' <ref>https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1391362</ref><blockquote>The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (“AICOA”)(S.2992 / H.R.3816) failed to pass because of serious privacy, security, and content moderation problems that were identified early on but never adequately addressed by sponsors and supporters. | The '''American Innovation and Choice Online Act''' aimed to curb anti-competitive practices by major online platforms. '''It had bi partisan support and it still failed to even reached congress.''' <ref>https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1391362</ref><blockquote>The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (“AICOA”)(S.2992 / H.R.3816) failed to pass because of serious privacy, security, and content moderation problems that were identified early on but never adequately addressed by sponsors and supporters. | ||
The collapse of AICOA illuminates the fundamental problem with current antitrust efforts in Congress. For decades courts and antitrust agencies have put consumers first in their evaluation of competition in the economy. This attention to the consumer welfare standard has led to tremendous benefits for innovation and the broader economy. Current lawmakers are instead obsessed with the size or conduct of specific companies and how to exert pressure on them or break them up. It is time for Congress to return to basic economics and promote antitrust efforts from a grounded, evidence-driven perspective or the failures of this legislative approach will be repeated in the new Congress.<ref>https://project-disco.org/competition/010623-aicoas-failure-and-the-future-of-competition-policy-in-congress/</ref></blockquote> | The collapse of AICOA illuminates the fundamental problem with current antitrust efforts in Congress. For decades courts and antitrust agencies have put consumers first in their evaluation of competition in the economy. This attention to the consumer welfare standard has led to tremendous benefits for innovation and the broader economy. Current lawmakers are instead obsessed with the size or conduct of specific companies and how to exert pressure on them or break them up. It is time for Congress to return to basic economics and promote antitrust efforts from a grounded, evidence-driven perspective or the failures of this legislative approach will be repeated in the new Congress.<ref>https://project-disco.org/competition/010623-aicoas-failure-and-the-future-of-competition-policy-in-congress/</ref></blockquote><u>Sponsors</u> | ||
Amy Klobuchar (D)*, Richard Blumenthal (D), Cory Booker (D), Steve Daines (R), Dick Durbin (D), Lindsey Graham (R), Chuck Grassley (R), Josh Hawley (R), Mazie Hirono (D), John Neely Kennedy (R), Cynthia Lummis (R), Jack Reed (D), Mark Warner (D), Sheldon Whitehouse (D) | Amy Klobuchar (D)*, Richard Blumenthal (D), Cory Booker (D), Steve Daines (R), Dick Durbin (D), Lindsey Graham (R), Chuck Grassley (R), Josh Hawley (R), Mazie Hirono (D), John Neely Kennedy (R), Cynthia Lummis (R), Jack Reed (D), Mark Warner (D), Sheldon Whitehouse (D) | ||