Lina Khan is a key architect of an aggressive attempt by Washington to rein in tech giants. Amazon may be next.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan will reportedly meet with representatives from Amazon (AMZN) next week in what could be the last face-to-face between the parties before the commission files an antitrust suit against the e-commerce giant.
I’m not trying to be an asshole, but there’s no way she has the experience necessary for this and that hurts everyone. Tech is complicated and when you combine that with antitrust, a new comer is not going to do it.
Have you actually read up on her, or are you just assuming that based on her age?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/podcasts/the-daily/is-washington-finally-ready-to-take-on-big-tech.html
The FTC has been run by old white guys for decades, and it’s been going backwards. Linda Khans essay on antitrust (as a postgrad student) has basically reframed the governments and legal professions approach to antitrust (although real change will be slow, with decades of bad precedent to undo). She went straight from being the top student at Yale Law, to being a professor at Columbia Law and simultaneously the counsel for the House committee on anti-trust.