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Senate hearing spotlights bipartisan push for structural fixes to big tech ad and search dominance
Summary
Senators and outside witnesses at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing debated structural remedies — including the America Act — and other tools to address alleged monopolistic conduct by major tech firms in search, advertising and app markets.
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights opened a hearing titled “Big Fixes, Big Tech,” pressing for legislative remedies to what witnesses and senators described as entrenched market power in online search, digital advertising and related platform services.
The hearing’s chair, Sen. Mike Lee, framed the day around structural remedies such as the America Act and said Congress must act: “Congress, of course, has the opportunity to pass solutions to unlock competition across tech platforms, ensuring that American consumers can and will benefit from competition.”
Why it matters: witnesses representing startups, publishers and public-interest groups told the panel that court victories and enforcement actions alone are slow to change market structure and that statutory fixes — including forced divestitures, open APIs and prohibitions on self-preferencing — are needed to restore competition and protect consumers, small businesses and publishers.
Boston University law professor Rory Van Loo urged structural…
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