Antitrust on Cephas - Liana Banyan Knowledge Center

I'm Just a Bill: American Innovation and Choice Online Act

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

👀 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

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

👀 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.