The most worthwhile and often successful political fights carry real emotional weight to them. They involve overcoming long odds to do genuine good for millions of Americans, often at great cost to the lawmakers involved. The recent antitrust push on Capitol Hill taps into this formula with a wonderful origin myth. As its proponents would tell it, they are fighting against big tech companies (the biggest in the nation and the world) to give consumers more choice and stick up for small businesses’ chance to compete.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) – the primary sponsor of the American Innovation and Choice Online (AICO) Act and figurehead of this anti-tech antitrust push – tried to tap into this sentiment last summer, saying, “Big Tech is spending millions of dollars fighting my fair competition bill. Why? Because they know it will lead to a better, more competitive marketplace for consumers. They want to rig the game, and we want to stop them. It’s as simple as that.”
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