Federal regulations should not predetermine economic winners and losers. Yet some regulations operate to exclude new market entrants. Regulations that reduce competition, entrepreneurship, and innovation as well as the benefits they create for American consumers should be eliminated. This order commences the process for eliminating anti-competitive regulations to revitalize the American economy.
Direction is given in Section 3 to agency heads in consultation with the FTC Chairman and AG to
complete a review of all regulations subject to their rulemaking authority and identify those that:
(i) create, or facilitate the creation of, de facto or de jure monopolies;
(ii) create unnecessary barriers to entry for new market participants;
(iii) limit competition between competing entities or have the effect of limiting competition between competing entities;
(iv) create or facilitate licensure or accreditation requirements that unduly limit competition;
(v) unnecessarily burden the agencys procurement processes, thereby limiting companies ability to compete for procurements; or(vi) otherwise impose anti-competitive restraints or distortions on the operation of the free market.
The EO goes on to order
Within 10 days of the date of this order, the Chairman shall issue a request for information (RFI) that seeks public input on the identification of regulations that fall within the categories specified in subsection (a) of this section, as well as comments explaining the proposed classifications. The request shall remain open for 40 days. Upon the close of the RFI period, the Chairman shall convey any relevant responses to the agency with rulemaking authority over the identified regulation.
So, has the Chairman of the FTC created a Request for Public Comments for these EOs? YES!
Posted April 13, 2025 Comment Start Date April 13, 2025
Comment Due Date May 27, 2025
Document Type Notice Document ID FTC-2025-0028-0001
Pursuant to the Presidents Executive Order 14267 regarding Reducing Anti-competitive Regulatory Barriers (April 9, 2025), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) invites public comment on how federal regulations can harm competition in the American economy. Appropriately tailored economic regulations can play an important role in ensuring that markets function efficiently. Often, however, regulations become unnecessarily onerous. Rather than serving the American people, such regulations can operate to exclude new market entrants, protect dominant incumbents, and predetermine economic winners and losers. Regulations that have the effect of reducing competition, entrepreneurship, and innovationand thereby holding back the American economyshould generally be eliminated or modified. FTC staff encourages members of the publicincluding consumers, workers, businesses, start-ups, potential market entrants, investors, and academicsto comment on any issues or concerns that are relevant to the FTCs consideration of this objective.
To submit a comment directly to the FTC on this EOCLICK HERE.
While I was researching the FTC for the request for public comment, I found a second FTC request for public comments I think many readers might find interesting.
The Federal Trade Commission invites public comment to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade (such as by demonetizing and shadow banning) users access to services based on the content of the users speech or their affiliations, including activities that take place outside the platform. In doing so, technology platforms may employ opaque or unpredictable internal procedures to restrict users access to services, often without any advance notice, leaving affected users with little ability to mitigate the related harm. Users may also receive little information about the alleged violations that led to their dismissal or downgrading on the platform. Technology platforms may similarly deny their users a meaningful opportunity to challenge or appeal the platforms decisions. Such actions by technology platforms may violate their terms of service or other policies (collectively, policies) and flout users reasonable expectations based on the technology platforms public representations. Such policies and practices, which may affect competition, may have resulted from a lack of competition or may have been the product of anti-competitive conduct. FTC staff is interested in understanding how consumers have been harmedincluding by potentially unfair or deceptive acts or practices, or potentially unfair methods of competition by technology platforms that limit users ability to share their ideas or affiliations freely and openly.
FTC staff encourages members of the public, including current and former employees of technology platforms, to comment on any issues or concerns that are relevant to the FTCs consideration of this topic, including, but not limited to these questions.
Since many readers and commenters on Independent Media Forums have been censored on various technology platforms (like facebook, youtube, instagram, twitter now X, etc.) over these past few years, you might want to share your experience. To submit a comment directly to the FTC on the topic of free speech on tech platformsCLICK HERE.
(a) secure the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech; (b) ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen; (c) ensure that no taxpayer resources are used to engage in or facilitate any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen; and (d) identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to censorship of protected speech.
The EO goes on to state that the AG (and heads of other departments):
. . . shall investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years that are inconsistent with the purposes and policies of this order and prepare a report to be submitted to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken based on the findings of the report.
Until the censorship stops completely, from both the government and the private sector, our speech will never be free. But this is a start in making truly free speech happen.
Those are some of the exact words used by Googles censors, aka 'Orwelliancontent police,' in describing many of our controversial stories.Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
