SIIA Statement in the Meta Case

The following statement can be attributed to Paul Lekas, Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

Yesterday's decision in the Meta case was a win for competition. The FTC has an important enforcement role, but we have long warned that then-FTC Chair Khan's aggressive attempts to rewrite the antitrust laws by administrative fiat fell well outside the authority of the agency she was charged with leading. It now falls to Chairman Ferguson to address this problem. Judge Boasberg's decision shows that the facts and the law still matter. Weak monopoly cases based on contrived market definitions, engineered to fit a set of ideological talking points, are unlikely to succeed. The FTC's ongoing litigation against Amazon is another case that would fit this pattern. Instead of seeking to weaken American tech companies at a time when they are more important to our economic and national security than ever, the FTC should focus on its proper role, which is to protect competition, not competitors.