![]() 3816 would prohibit 13 forms of “discriminatory conduct,” like “self-preferences” for the platforms’ own products over other businesses and interfering with the pricing of other businesses goods and services. All four bills were ordered reported by the House Judiciary Committee on June 23, 2021. 3849, the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act. ![]() 3826, the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act and H.R. 3825, the Ending Platform Monopolies Act H.R. 3816, the American Choice and Innovation Online Act H.R. ![]() The report led to the introduction of four bills in the 117th Congress: H.R. While the authors claim they are promoting the ‘public good,’ if the recommendations in the report were enacted into law, it would both harm the many digital platforms Americans use today and eliminate the opportunity for new businesses to enter the marketplace.” These laws should not be abused to achieve a political objective. It completely undermines the history and purpose of antitrust laws, which first and foremost are intended to protect consumers. At the time, a Citizens Against Government Waste blog, “House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Report Is Anti-Competitive,” said that the “449-page partisan and ill-informed treatise, which was a complete waste of the taxpayers’ money, strikes out at various digital platforms, many of which directly compete against each other. The antitrust proposals being considered in the House and Senate include ideas that were included in an October 2020 report by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law majority staff. The “Big Tech” companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been the primary targets, but if the consumer welfare standard is abandoned for them, there would be no business in the country that would be safe from government intervention and enforcement. ![]() This doctrine, which was first established under the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890 and reiterated in the Clayton Act in 1914, has encouraged competition and innovation, both of which benefit consumers.īut over the past decade, some members of Congress have attempted to take antitrust enforcement in a new direction by attacking businesses based on their size rather than how their products and services benefit consumers. For more than 100 years, federal antitrust laws have been guided by the consumer welfare standard. ![]()
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