Antitrust & Trade Reg.
May 7, 2026
California's push to rein in Big Tech falters with BASED Act defeat
California's BASED Act died in a Senate committee after a 3-3 vote in April, sinking a proposal to bar dominant tech platforms from favoring their own products.
Rachel S. Brass
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Email: rbrass@gibsondunn.com
Rachel is co-chair of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.
California's latest bid to regulate Big Tech has stalled. The "Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant Platforms Act"--or the BASED Act--failed to advance out of the Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies and Consumer Protection Committee after a 3-3 vote on April 20.
Authored by Sen. Scott Weiner, the bill targeted the world's largest digital platforms--those with $1 trillion in market capitalization and at least 100 million mon...
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