Chris Lewis: “So open access networks, Congressman, can bring in competition by lowering the barriers to building the core…”

I do not agree with Professor Francis' analysis here. And I also, in terms of--there was a suggestion that adding consumer welfare--those words--into the statute of AICOA would be a good thing. I disagree with that.

If we have monopoly pricing or few choices for consumers... then that can lead to prices continuing to go up well ahead of inflation.

I believe that AICOA specifically targets anticompetitive harms, and I don't believe that content moderation on a platform--a single platform is necessarily an anticompetitive harm.

We have to put some rules--build out requirements and rules around anti-redlining into effect.