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Government,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Feb. 9, 2023

Congress favors antitrust enforcement, but what kind?

“There’s strong feelings against Big Tech, really on both sides of the aisle,” said Vanderbilt Law School professor Rebecca Allensworth, who specializes in antitrust law. “But the place where they overlap is actually relatively small and a little bit fragile.”

Congress favors antitrust enforcement, but what kind?
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday. New York Times News Service

President Joe Biden got applause from members of both major parties on Tuesday night when he called for “bipartisan legislation to strengthen antitrust enforcement” against technology giants. The people clapping, however, might have very different ideas about what that actually means.

“There’s strong feelings against Big Tech, really on both sides of the aisle,” said Vanderbilt Law School professor Rebecca Allensworth, who specializes in an...

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