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Last updated Nov 29, 2025
Prediction
Sacks
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Sacks @ 01:14:32Right
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During the current Congress (2021–2023), at least some of the six House‑passed bipartisan antitrust bills targeting large technology platforms will pass the U.S. Senate and be enacted into law, resulting in significant regulatory changes for big tech companies.
It's a huge priority. There's six bills that just got passed in the House and it's going to the Senate. And I do think this is one of the areas where you could actually get some bipartisan agreement in the Senate… that says to me that legislation is likely I think it's going to go through. I think we are going to see some some big changes.View on YouTube
Explanation

Sacks was talking about the six‑bill House Judiciary 'Big Tech' antitrust package (H.R. 3816, 3825, 3826, 3843, 3849, 3460) that cleared committee in June 2021 to rein in large online platforms such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. (ballardspahr.com)

During the 117th Congress (2021–2022), two of those six bills did in fact pass the Senate and become law:

  • The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act (H.R. 3843) was passed by the House and then enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, signed on December 29, 2022. (congress.gov)
  • The State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act (H.R. 3460) likewise passed the Senate (June 14, 2022) and was incorporated into the same omnibus spending law. (en.wikipedia.org)

These provisions substantially raised Hart‑Scott‑Rodino merger filing fees for large deals (up to $2.25 million, with an estimated $1.4 billion in extra funding over five years) and made it harder for dominant firms, including major tech platforms, to shift or consolidate state antitrust suits into more favorable venues—changes widely described as important, if modest, strengthening of antitrust enforcement against Big Tech. (mintz.com)

The other four bills in the package—including the platform‑specific American Innovation and Choice Online Act and Ending Platform Monopolies Act—never received final floor passage and expired at the end of the Congress. (congress.gov)

So while the eventual reforms were narrower than a full rewrite of platform conduct rules, Sacks’ core prediction that at least some of the package would clear the Senate during that Congress and produce meaningful new antitrust constraints relevant to Big Tech was borne out.