Antitrust

👀 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. ...

👀 I’m Just a Bill — Antitrust Merger Review Reform A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Antitrust reform legislation in the 119th Congress modernizing the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act merger-review process and updating the agencies’ authority to challenge anti-competitive mergers. What does it actually do? HSR thresholds — adjusts pre-merger notification thresholds Healthcare-PE rollups — specific provisions addressing private-equity rollups in healthcare (composing with Stop Wall Street Looting Act) Labor markets — strengthens FTC/DOJ authority to challenge mergers reducing wage competition Vertical mergers — clarifies authority to challenge anti-competitive vertical integration Enforcement budgets — funds expanded FTC + DOJ Antitrust Division capacity Who votes when? House Judiciary + Senate Judiciary active consideration How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #2 Lets Get Groceries (anti-monopoly architecture is Initiative #2’s explicit thesis), #3 Lets Go Shopping (cooperative marketplace as structural alternative to consolidated platform-capitalism), and the cooperative compact’s broader structural-anti-extraction commitment. ...