Congress Reconsiders AICOA: What Big Tech Platform Regulation Means for Small Businesses
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The article discusses the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), a federal platform regulation bill being reconsidered by Congress. The bill targets large digital platforms based on revenue and user thresholds, imposing conduct restrictions that would move U.S. antitrust policy closer to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). It would restrict ordinary business practices like self-preferencing for covered platforms. The piece frames this as a timely discussion topic for small-business growth.
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· 3 pulledCongress is again considering the twice failed American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), a sweeping federal platform regulation bill that would impose new conduct restrictions on a small set of large digital platforms.
The bill would move U.S. antitrust policy closer to the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) by targeting firms based on revenue and user thresholds rather than a traditional showing of market power.
Once covered, platforms would face broad restrictions on ordinary business practices including sel
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