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Sam Bowman is founding editor of Works in Progress and was the former Director of Competition Policy at ICLE.

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Brian Albrecht is ICLE's Chief Economist and an assistant professor of economics in the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University

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A Big Tech crackdown could just make the Internet worse

Samuel Bowman & Brian Albrecht November 5, 2021

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Last month, a bipartisan group led by Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced a bill that would, in many cases, ban one of the most common practices of large tech platforms like Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook (which now wishes to be known as Meta). The bill is being touted as a way to protect consumers from the power of Big Tech, but it would actually make things worse for users. It would undermine the trial-and-error process that has built the Internet we know today.

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