Antitrust

Join ITIF’s Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy for a webinar featuring leading experts who will examine the legislation, discuss its likely consequences, and explain why AICOA could undermine American technology leadership without delivering meaningful benefits for competition.

Joseph V. Coniglio hosts Robert H. Bork Jr., president of the Antitrust Education Project, to discuss his book The New Paradox: Antitrust and the Threat of Conservative Socialism. They cover what’s happening now in antitrust policy, Trump-era antitrust continuity, and why antitrust is the wrong tool for speech issues.

The Pope’s AI encyclical reflects social capitalism’s animus toward growth, technology-driven creative destruction, international economic competition, and large business.

ITIF believes that in many important respects the Draft Guidance appears to broadly track the EU’s own revised technology transfer guidance (Revised EU Guidance) on technology pools in a largely unproblematic way but rightly declines to follow the Revised EU Guidance’s discussion of the competitive analysis involving licensing negotiation groups.

The bill would impose heavy restrictions on the ability of America’s leading digital platforms to engage in a wide array of common, overwhelmingly procompetitive behavior.

The EU has an array of discriminatory policies that target major U.S. tech firms, a legitimate basis for action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. U.S. policymakers should favor amicably negotiated solutions, but this tool is available as a last resort if necessary.

A ban on personalized pricing would not make Canada more affordable; it would eliminate discounts at the bottom of the distribution and raise the floor for price-sensitive shoppers, the very consumers these proposals aim to protect.

Designating Microsoft’s business software under the UK's new regulatory framework contradicts the government's stated goals of driving innovation and economic growth, as over-regulating these tools would deter long-term investment and represent an disproportionate, unnecessary exercise of authority when standard competition laws already suffice.

Despite Magnifica Humanitas’s discussion of AI and economic power, today’s AI market remains highly competitive, and policymakers should be cautious about using monopoly fears to justify heavy-handed regulation.

The survival of the Federal Trade Commission’s specious consumer protection claims against Uber over the rideshare company’s popular subscription service perpetuates yet another flawed lawsuit against Big Tech.