In a memo, Lina Khan encourages FTC staff to prioritize addressing “dominant intermediaries”, unfair contracts, and mergers that are “illegal on their face”
Two words that don't appear anywhere in the memo: economics/economists and privacy.
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She also lays out three priorities for the agencies work: 1) discouraging a wave of illegal mergers that has overwhelmed the agency; 2) investigating companies that act as “gatekeepers and dominant middlemen” in the economy; 3) and combatting unfair contract terms.
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Bravo @linakhanFTC emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach that would see lawyers -focused on #competition, truth in advertising, #privacy and #data security - working together with the technologists, data analysts, financial analysts and other experts @FTC plans to bring in ht…
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Carl Shapiro, formerly economist for the FTC in its Facebook case and an author of the 2008 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, and Herb Hovenkamp aren't happy with the FTC's withdrawal of the vertical merger guidelines https://promarket.org/...
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Some news from FTC Chair Lina Khan: Holly Vedova and Sam Levine will take on the permanent bureau director jobs https://www.ftc.gov/...
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Shocker that Google lobbyist Carl Shapiro doesn't like Lina Khan. https://promarket.org/...