See “Platform Product Preference Bill Unfairly Targets Large Online Platforms, CCIA Says,” Broadband Breakfast, March 24, 2022 

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 12 Noon ET — Big Tech and the American Innovation and Choice Online Act

Congress is ratcheting up its campaign against big tech. A specific focus of lawmakers is promoting competitiveness in markets a few big platforms dominate. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act prevents platforms giving preference to their own products and limiting the availability of competitors’ products. Will the bill accomplish its goals? What challenges does it face? Join us for the Broadband Breakfast Live Online event where panelists will hash out these and other issues.

Panelists for this Broadband Breakfast Live Online session:

• Antoine Prince Albert III, Government Affairs Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge
• Arthur Sidney, Vice President of Public Policy, Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
• Patrick Hedger, Executive Director, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
• Drew Clark (presenter and host), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Panelist resources:

• Big Tech, Big Problems, & Big Solutions, Public Knowledge
• Antoine Prince Albert III on the market structure of digital programs, Public Knowledge
• Manager’s Amendment Shows AICOA Not Ready for Prime Time, CCIA
• Senators Should Avoid Making the Digital Economy More European, CCIA
• How Proposed Legislation Would Break Digital Services, CCIA
• It’s Deja Vu for Yet Another Misguided Tech Regulation Proposal, CCIA
• National Security Issues Posed by House Antitrust Bills, CCIA
• National Security Letter on Antitrust, September 15, 2021
• Don’t Break What Works, CCIA
• Ukraine Invasion Brings Hypothetical Security Issues With Tech Bills Close to Reality, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
• App Security Project
• Klobuchar-Grassley Bill Obnoxiously Disdains Consumer Preference, RealClearMarkets
• American Choice & Innovation Online Act is a Net Negative for Competition, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
• Op-Ed: Federal antitrust bill would grant ‘sweeping new powers’ to federal bureaucrats, The Center Square

Antoine Prince Albert III is a Government Affairs Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, Inc., a DC-based public interest group working to defend consumer rights in the emerging digital culture. At PK, Prince delivers high-impact advocacy strategies on issues like online platform governance and competition, Section 230, artificial intelligence and algorithms, music licensing, and privacy. He is routinely consulted for critical insights on how media and technology function within Black, Latino, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities of the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Arthur D. Sidney, LLM is the VP of Public Policy at CCIA, where he started in June 2020. Formerly, he was chief of staff and chief counsel to Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr., Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, and served as an international trade attorney with the U.S. Department of Commerce where he focused upon trade remedies. Arthur has served as an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law, American University, Washington College of Law, and University of Maryland University College now University of Maryland Global campuses.

Patrick Hedger is the Executive Director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan taxpayer and consumer watchdog group. Prior to joining TPA, Patrick was a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Technology and Innovation. Patrick is a twice-graduate of George Mason University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and International Politics and a Master of Public Policy degree.

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