Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Amy Klobuchar reintroduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) this past June, with Senators Dick Durbin, Josh Hawley, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Cory Booker signing on as cosponsors. The bill targets common…
Washington, D.C. (9/3/2026) – The Don’t Break What Works campaign released the following statement after Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declined to order the divestiture of Google’s ad business, and accepted…
Most small businesses expect to grow this year and are relying on digital tools to do so. Large technology firms have spent years developing and deploying the infrastructure, technology, and platforms these small businesses use to compete effectively against much…
Washington, D.C. (6/11/2026) – The Don’t Break What Works campaign released the following statement regarding the reintroduction of the deeply flawed American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA): “AICOA will break the digital products and services that Americans rely on…
Earlier this month, California lawmakers declined to advance sweeping legislation that would likely adversely affect businesses and consumers nationwide. CA SB 1074, known as the BASED Act, is directly inspired by the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The BASED…
A group of Senate Democrats recently sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, urging the agencies to expand their antitrust scrutiny in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. In their push, the lawmakers took aim…
Washington, D.C. (02/04/2026) The Don’t Break What Works campaign released the following statement following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to appeal the remedies ruling in the Google Search case. “The Department of Justice’s decision to appeal the remedies ruling…
For more than 40 years, U.S. antitrust policy has been guided by the clear principle that enforcement actions should be grounded in demonstrable harm to consumers. Concerningly, some antitrust enforcers have moved away from this consumer welfare standard, instead pursuing…
In Washington, efforts to oversee the digital economy often come with unintended consequences. When these proposals conflict, they risk producing a fragmented regulatory landscape that weakens, rather than strengthens, the very safeguards they aim to improve. The result is a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (10/13/2025) – Following the conclusion of the remedy trial for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case against Google’s ad tech, it has become clear that the government’s remedy proposals go far beyond the court’s decision and threaten to…