Interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan on leading the agency, its regulatory failures and avoiding future missteps, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and more
Lina Khan was an associate professor at Columbia Law, working remotely from Texas, when she found out that President Joe Biden wanted her on the Federal Trade Commission. Tweets: @kvnweb , @nancyscola , @nymag , @viacristiano , @jenhoward80 , @jenhoward80 , @_vectorist , @ryanjtracy , @nancyscola , and @sarahmillerdc Tweets: Kevin Webb / @kvnweb : “Khan told me she worries about the ‘existential stakes of underreaching’” https://nymag.com/... Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : One nugget in here: after a few years in D.C. in her early twenties, Khan was debating between going to law school & taking a reporting job at the Wall Street Journal. Law school won. https://nymag.com/... @nymag : New FTC boss Lina Khan thinks corporations such as Facebook are abusing their power. To fight them, she's consolidating some clout of her own. @nancyscola reports https://nymag.com/... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : ‼️ @nancyscola nabs the first *highly* coveted one-on-one interview with FTC Chair @linakhanFTC https://nymag.com/... via @NYMag Jen Howard / @jenhoward80 : “The chicken farmer that is subject to the whims of the massive chicken processor is going to face analogous contract terms to the author that is subject to a major bookseller.” https://nymag.com/... Jen Howard / @jenhoward80 : “The worker at the whims of his boss, and who is bound by a noncompete agreement so he can't quit and go next door; or the small-business franchisee that's at the whims of the big franchiser”...to Khan, these are all symptoms of markets that have been conquered by oligarchs. Domenic Powell / @_vectorist : The change in the FTC's direction under Chair Khan represents “a throwback to the 1920s Progressive-era notion that a free people need fair markets.” https://nymag.com/... Ryan Tracy / @ryanjtracy : In which @linakhanFTC tells @nancyscola she was “pretty startled” when she learned she was getting the FTC Chair job. https://nymag.com/... Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : New from me, for @NYMag: “30 Minutes with...Lina Khan.” https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/... Sarah Miller / @sarahmillerdc : “Khan...is indisputably the most powerful figure in the anti-monopoly vanguard. She gives a clarifying voice to the idea that super-concentrated corporate power is a threat to ordinary Americans — not just to our economic well-being but to our freedoms.” https://nymag.com/...