Take convenient services we use everyday.
Companies won’t be able to recommend their own services in their marketplaces. So, Google can’t make Search curate results using Maps or YouTube to make them more convenient.
Just like how this summer’s House antitrust package would have caused higher prices, fewer choices, and less innovation, the Senate’s latest push will kneecap leading American businesses, ruin the consumer experience online, and undermine popular innovations and privacy standards.
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By denying platforms from offering combined services at a discounted price, Americans would lose out on things like Prime Shipping, Apple+, Google One+, and many more.
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By severely limiting the ways in which digital platforms can offer their services, consumers would lose out on useful tools for price-shop. This bill would make it impossible for Amazon to provide comparison boxes with lower-price same-brand products like Amazon Basics.
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The bill restricts platforms’ ability to quickly remove malicious third party providers and keep the data generated on their platforms out of the hands of bad actors and foreign corporations.
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The bill makes it illegal for platforms to help veteran, LGBTQ, and black-owned small businesses find loyal audiences online through targeted campaigns.
Just like how the Chinese Communist Party’s recent antitrust crackdowns wiped out a trillion dollars worth of market capitalizations, Americans can expect similar financial pains from this legislation depressing the investments and retirement funds of hardworking Americans.
U.S. antitrust enforcement should protect the consumer, not cause them pain.
The bill kills Amazon’s Prime shipping, denies Google from highlighting relevant Maps and Reviews at the top of a user’s search, and obliterates Apple+ bulk discount service.
Platforms are forced to disclose customers’ personal information to high-risk and foreign actors whether the shoppers want their data shared or not.
Platforms must partner with potentially risky sellers and cannot easily remove bad actors.
It prevents businesses from partnering with particular communities like veterans and military spouses, small business owners, and first-generation American business owners to promote their businesses on the company’s platform.
This emboldens progressive efforts and sends a signal that Congress supports radical moves like abandoning the consumer welfare standard for subjective standards like “economic justice” or “climate justice.”