Reminder: AICOA, OAMA, And JCPA Present Serious Risks To Consumers
As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to revisit failed anti-tech legislation, it is important to remember the serious risks posed by the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), the Open App Markets Act (OAMA), the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), and other bills like them.
There’s a reason why each of these bills stalled in the last Congress. Here’s what you need to know:
1) AICOA raises significant privacy, content moderation, and innovation concerns for tech consumers
— Experts including Sean Heather of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Lindsay Mark Lewis of the Progressive Policy Institute, and former National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow have laid out the numerous threats posed to consumers by AICOA. Additionally, the Center for Democracy and Technology noted last week the serious privacy and content moderation issues with bills like AICOA.
— AICOA’s implications for content moderation are also conflicting and largely unclear, according to CCIA.
2) OAMA could harm consumers and threaten cybersecurity
— According to experts such as Patrick Hedger of Taxpayers Protection Alliance, Anumpam Chander of Georgetown Law, and Caroline Lupetini of NetChoice, OAMA would harm consumers through threats to content moderation and cybersecurity.
3) JCPA could harm consumers by limiting independent journalism
— A coalition of bipartisan organizations have sent a letter to Senate leaders explaining the issues JCPA poses to content moderation and its problematic favoring of larger news outlets.
Learn more about why these three anti-competitive bills would be harmful to consumers here, here, and here.