Over the past year, critics of progressive efforts like S. 2992 – the American Choice and Innovation Online Act – to overhaul American antitrust law have been unnecessarily kind. Many go out of their way to assign saintly motivations to proponents like Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Their logic usually claims that S. 2992 may inadvertently cause a negative outcome, and its writers accidentally oversaw such consequences.
But what if pain is the point? What if the bill has been written with the intent to create such a toxic and unaffordable online environment that it drives people off the platforms covered by the legislation?
If you hear what Progressives tell each other, this shouldn’t come as a shock.
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