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Four former MiLB teams--Staten Island, Tri-City, Salem-Keizer and Norwich--filed a civil complaint in U.S. District Court, challenging MLB's antitrust exemption.

Washington. they don't have to play by the same rules everybody else does. >> republicans are mad at baseball now over the all-star game decision but lawmakers have threatened to yank the antitrust exemption for decades. such was the case after the 1994 lockout forced the cancellation of the world series, and the steroid scandal. >> they should be held accountable for that exemption. of course it should be one of the things on the table. if you're going to look at not reacting to this crisis. >> yet despite the congressional threats, baseball maintains its antitrust exemption. >> they use the ...

Google alone raked in $4.7 billion in revenue, all by scraping news publishers' content and without paying publishers for the use, industry says they've been hijacked. >> the tech giants are gatekeepers that compete against companies that must get through their gates to reach users. >> considering considering new legislation for allowing antitrust exemption and ultimately share in revenue. big companies in regulators' cross hairs for months. >> taking a look at the companies and their -- their dominance in marketplace and making sure that they are not misusing that. >> big tech companies say t...

Interestingly, the antitrust laws currently protect google and facebook from us, if you can believe that or not. what we want is antitrust exemption, if you will, safe harbor that would allow us to collectively act to negotiate for a better deal. it's limited in time to four years. and it's about money, yes, but it's also about algorithms and data and how our brand is presented to folks opinion we're not asking the government to regulate anybody or tax anybody. we're asking them mostly to just leave us alone. >> this bill is called the journalism competition and preservation act. people can go...