It specifically carved out cases where the balance leans toward non-regulation - namely, non-competes for executives. This is false. The FTC tried to ban for a

It specifically carved out cases where the balance leans toward non-regulation - namely, non-competes for executives. This is false. The FTC tried to ban for all workers and senior executives. The only difference for senior executives is that the FTC didn't retroactively invalidate existing non-competes. Under the FTC's rule, no new non-competes could be signed.