The DOJ endorsed House and Senate bills Monday that would keep the biggest digital platforms like Meta, Google, Apple and Amazon from giving preferential treatment to their own products.
, the American Competition and Innovation Act, in January. A companion bill awaits full House approval.The bills still have to pass the full Senate and House, and face a packed congressional agenda along with bitter partisanship.
“It’s always helpful to know where the DOJ stands on competition legislation, but it’s not obvious that this letter will change the legislative dynamics in Congress around the bill," Daniel Francis, former deputy director of the FTC competition bureau and a lecturer at Harvard Law School, told Axios."The Department views the rise of dominant platforms as presenting a threat to open markets and competition, with risks for consumers, business, innovation, resiliency, global competitiveness, and our democracy," the letter, signed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Peter Hyun, reads.
"If enacted, we believe that this legislation has the potential to have a positive effect on dynamism in markets going forward," Hyun writes, and that the DOJ "looks forward to working with Congress to ensure that the final legislation enacted meets these goals.
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