The Open Competition Center advocates for a rule-of-law, consumer-based approach to antitrust regulation. We support open competition among companies, labor, and at the ballot box.
Antitrust
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Voters Don’t Buy That OAMA Will Boost App Store Competition
As time goes on, it is becoming increasingly clear that ordinary Americans lack enthusiasm for greater regulation of American tech companies. According to recent polls conducted by Morning Consult/ Politico, only two provisions of the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) — “preventing app stores from self-preferencing their own…
Labor
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Senate HELP Should Reject Jessica Looman for WHD
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) has noticed a markup for Jessica Looman to be Wage and Hour Administrator this Wednesday, November 16th. If confirmed, Looman’s ivory tower theories will threaten the business models that allow millions of Americans to put food on the table.
Antitrust
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FTC Abandons Consumer Welfare Standard With Latest Lina Khan Edict
According to media reports, Lina Khan’s FTC intends to make “make wider use of its 1914 founding statute to police anticompetitive behavior by companies in the internet age.” At first glance, increased antitrust enforcement against anticompetitive behavior does not seem objectionable. However, a deeper dive into the FTC’s latest policy…
Antitrust
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News Flash to Lina Khan: Meta is No Monopoly
According to the FTC’s summary of their case against Meta, the principal justification for their legal action against the supposed ‘tech giant’ is that “the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct.” While this claim may seem credible to laymen, those…
Labor
NLRB Continues Its War on Workplace Speech
The Biden Administration has weaponized the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to fulfill President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to be the “most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” To that end, the NLRB has repeatedly used its power to tip the scales toward unions during organizing efforts. The reason is clear…
Antitrust
New Punchbowl News Poll: Klobuchar Antitrust Bill “Isn’t Terribly Popular”
The House passed the “Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act” (H.R. 3843) last week, legislation that would raise fees on larger companies engaging in M&A activity and prohibit companies from requesting a venue change when a state attorney general brings an antitrust suit. Lawmakers who’ve been pushing for another bill, the…
Antitrust
FTC’s Politically Motivated Pursuit of Meta-Within Acquisition Gets Stranger
Not even Netflix’s Stranger Things has managed to construe odder narrative developments than the ones unfolding from the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) pursuit of a meritless lawsuit against Meta. This week, a report came out that Meta found out about FTC’s lawsuit against them from Twitter. The lack of warning before filing…
Antitrust
Cornyn Says Antitrust Bill Will Never Reach Senate Floor
In an interview, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said that the “American Innovation and Choice Online Act” will never make it to the Senate floor. Despite Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s strident protestations to the contrary, it is becoming increasingly clear that the bill just does not have nearly enough support to get across the…