Overview
- Senators Chuck Grassley and Amy Klobuchar reintroduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act on June 10 to curb dominant platforms' ability to favor their own products.
- The bill would apply to platforms with at least $175 billion in average annual gross revenue and reaching 34 percent of U.S. households or monthly users and would bar self‑preferencing, misuse of nonpublic business data, locking defaults, and blocking access to platform features.
- Enforcement would be handled by the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, who could bring actions against covered platforms for exclusionary conduct.
- Apple and major industry groups immediately criticized the proposal, saying it would harm privacy, security, child‑safety protections and U.S. competitiveness, while privacy‑focused companies and antitrust advocates publicly endorsed the bill.
- The measure revives a multi‑year bipartisan push that previously moved through committee but stalled, and its prospects for committee action or passage remain uncertain as lawmakers weigh lessons from the EU's Digital Markets Act and industry lobbying.