Five bills: each covering a slightly different aspect of antitrust/tech platforms.
1) Line of business restrictions. This is the "Glass-Steagall of the Internet" idea that Cicilline has talked up. The legislation takes aim at companies (like Amazon) that operate a dominant platform and promote their own goods or services on it.
2) Non-discrimination. This would bar platforms from discriminating against rivals — legislation that would prohibit many of the tech giants from “self-preferencing” or favoring their own products.
The DOJ, FTC or state attorneys general could sue platforms for engaging in discriminatory conduct, including if a platform restricts a business’ access to customers’ commercial data or requires companies to purchase another product or service to gain access to the platform.
This one seems most clearly aimed at Apple and Amazon, though it would also impact Google's self-preferencing in search results.
3) Data portability/interoperability. the bill would require online platforms to create interfaces to let users easily move their data to other services.
The FTC would be empowered to make rules governing the transfer of data between services, and the DOJ and FTC could also sue and seek damages from companies that seek to violate the portability or interoperability requirements.
4) Mergers. It would prohibit platforms from acquiring potential rivals — legislation intended to beef up the FTC and DOJ’s ability to police start-up acquisitions.
A platform would be required to show “clear and convincing evidence” in court that the potential rival doesn’t compete with it or pose a competitive threat.
5) Money. This one is a companion to the Merger Filing Fee Bill by Klobuchar and Grassley that passed last night as part of Endless Frontiers. It would up the filing fees for bigger mergers (and reduce them for smaller ones)

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Bornstein: It's getting the app on your phone.
YGR: Is there any definition that gets to the problem where the market has economic substitutes.
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The media line went dead for a few minutes but is now back. Tim Cook is now coming up to be sworn in.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will be up first. After he's done, Aviel Rubin, Apple's security expert from Johns Hopkins, will finish his testimony.
Going through our morning introductions now.
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