I'm Just a Bill: American Innovation and Choice Online Act
👀 I’m Just a Bill — American Innovation and Choice Online Act A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? AICOA would prohibit dominant online platforms (Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta) from self-preferencing their own products and services over competitors on the platforms they operate. What does it actually do? Self-preferencing prohibition: Dominant platforms can’t preference their own products/services in search results, app stores, or marketplace algorithms. Tying restrictions: Can’t require business users to buy other services as a condition of platform access. Discrimination prohibition: Can’t treat business users worse than the platform’s own offerings. Enforcement: FTC + DOJ Antitrust + state AGs. Who votes when? Senate Judiciary + House Judiciary: Active reintroduction Floor: Pending committee passage How does this affect cooperative-class families? The cooperative is structurally the alternative to platform-capitalism extraction. AICOA addresses one symptom (self-preferencing); Liana Banyan addresses the underlying disease (extractive ownership architecture). Composes with #3 Let’s Go Shopping cooperative-marketplace cluster. ...