Here is a bidding crusade Trump is still on board

In this era of partisan sanctuary and ideological polarization, there seems to be at least one thing that Americans can still agree with all political beliefs: buying concert tickets.

On Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced that they will start an inquiry about “competitive practices and behaviors in the live concert and entertainment industry”, and asked the public to make comments on this topic.

The move was made available by an executive order of the White House, in which the supervisory authorities and law enforcement authorities were instructed by states to take measures against online ticket scalpers that President Trump had signed last month when he entered the Oval Office from a died Kid Rock with Stars-and-Stripes.

“Many Americans have the feeling of becoming a live entertainment of scalpers, bots and other unfair and misleading practices from live entertainment,” said FTC, Andrew N. Ferguson, in a statement. “Now her voices are heard. President Trump has sent a clear message that bad actors who use fans and distort the market are not tolerated.”

The attempt to make a ticket is a less crazy experience that represents a rare continuity point between the Trump and Biden administrations.

The former president made a large part of his government's war against “junk fees” and provided the annoying and expensive hidden fees that fans distinguish, often tackled when they check out. The problem was increased after the sale of Taylor Swift's Eras tour for the sale of Ticketmaster, a public thrust and triggered an angry setback against the company.

In December, the FTC completed a cross -party rule in which junk fees for live event tickets and hotels were banned, which should finally come into force next week. (Ferguson, the current chairman, who was one of two Republicans in the Commission at the time, supported the regulation.)

In a more dramatic step, the Ministry of Justice also tried to separate Live Nation, the entertaining opponent that has a ticket master and hundreds of venues worldwide, and last year, in which it accused the company to stamp competition from other ticket platforms, including monopolistic caving.

Trump seems to be largely based on these efforts. The Ministry of Justice continued to pursue its case against Live Nation, and in March a federal judge rejected the company's efforts to throw out some claims from the lawsuit. Trump's executive order at scalping followed weeks later.

Among other things, the order indicated the FTC to “prevent the law on the better online ticket (or the bots), a law of Obama era, which is supposed to prevent automated buyers from selling them before they can access real fans strictly”. According to a fact of the white house, the FTC has only prescribed legally since it was issued. The agency also calls on the agency to take measures against the “competitive behavior on the secondary ticketing market” and to ensure that companies keep prices transparent, according to the new junk fee rule.