Congressional Leadership Realizing That 'Big Tech' Antitrust Bills Aren't Ready For Prime Time

Congressional Leadership Realizing That 'Big Tech' Antitrust Bills Aren't Ready For Prime Time

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210629/14372047086/congressional-leadership-realizing-that-big-tech-antitrust-bills-arent-ready-prime-time.shtml

As you've now heard, there's a big push in Congress to revise how antitrust works. A group of mostly Democratic House members (with a few Republicans on board) introduced a questionable package of antitrust bills, with many, many problems. There were some good ideas (such as better funding of the FTC) and some more creative ideas (such as around interoperability), but done in such ham-fisted ways that they would cause a lot more harm than good. We've noted how the bills would create massive problems for content moderation, and raise related speech issues.

Last week's marathon markup hearing in the House Judiciary Committee did not ease these concerns -- if anything they made them much, much worse. After the hearing was finally over, a bi-partisan group of Judiciary Committee members put out a statement highlighting the half-baked nature of the proposals.

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