{"id":11002,"date":"2020-10-06T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2020-10-06T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T21:26:34","slug":"statement-news-media-alliance-applauds-house-antitrust-report-dominant-online-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/statement-news-media-alliance-applauds-house-antitrust-report-dominant-online-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: News Media Alliance Applauds House Report on Dominant Online Platforms and Market Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, House Antitrust Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) and the Democratic Majority of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law released their long-awaited report<\/a><\/span> on the anticompetitive behavior of the big tech platforms. The report \u2013 based on the Subcommittee\u2019s investigation of the tech platforms that began last year \u2013 makes multiple recommendations for addressing how their dominance has produced anticompetitive harms against consumers. The report includes an extensive discussion of the online platforms\u2019 anticompetitive actions against news publishers, and consistent with global findings, how that abuse harms the ability to produce quality journalism for the public. A republican report<\/a><\/span> released separately by Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) highlights areas of agreement with the majority\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

The first of seven hearings in the Antitrust Subcommittee\u2019s investigation, in June 2019, focused on how Google and Facebook impact the news industry. During that hearing, multiple witnesses expressed support for H.R. 2054, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act<\/em><\/a><\/span>,\u00a0which would allow news publishers to negotiate collectively with the online platforms for fair compensation for their content. The report recommends passage of H.R. 2054. We applaud the leadership of Chairman Cicilline and Rep. Collins for their introduction of this bill and for recognizing the importance of quality journalism.<\/p>\n

News Media Alliance President & CEO, David Chavern, stated, \u201cWe commend Chairman Cicilline and the House Antitrust Subcommittee for their diligence in conducting their investigation, and for the concrete and impactful recommendations they proposed, to address the tech platforms\u2019 anticompetitive behavior. For too long, tech platforms such as Facebook and Google have gotten away with imposing unfair terms and conditions on news publishers, and there has been no way to stop them. The platforms knew this and have taken advantage of their dominant positions, restricting competition and threatening the future of local and high-quality journalism. These recommendations will help to correct the anticompetitive behavior of the platforms and force them to play by the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chavern continued, \u201cWe hope Congress will act swiftly to implement these recommendations, as well as pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,<\/span><\/em>\u00a0to protect not only competition online, but the availability of and access to reliable and trustworthy news for our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Antitrust Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) and the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law have released their long-awaited report on the anticompetitive behavior of the big tech platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776,1919,642,180,828,648],"tags":[665,640,4014,1800,204,1957,1958,401,79,1852,1805,118,688,1959,54,55,532,753,1136,883],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antitrust-digital","category-copyright-digital","category-digital","category-journalism","category-press-releases","category-tech-platforms-digital","tag-anticompetitive","tag-antitrust","tag-antitrust-subcommittee","tag-cicilline","tag-david-chavern","tag-dominance","tag-dominant","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-hearing","tag-house","tag-journalism","tag-journalism-competition-and-preservation-act","tag-market","tag-news-media","tag-news-media-alliance","tag-news-publisher","tag-report","tag-safe-harbor","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}