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Advocates Urge OK of Big Tech Self-Preference Bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., should schedule a floor vote for a bill that would ban Big Tech platforms from "unfairly" self-preferencing their own products and services, more than 30 advocacy groups wrote Monday. The American Innovation and Choice…

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Online Act (S-2992) is a “critical measure to ensure that big tech firms are held accountable for the anticompetitive conduct which has allowed them to develop monopoly power,” they wrote. Public Knowledge, Public Citizen, Demand Progress, Accountable Tech, the Center for Digital Democracy and Open Markets Institute signed. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 to advance the bill earlier this month (see 2201200066).