Lina Khan is taking swings at Big Tech as FTC chair, and changing how it does business

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FTC Chair Lina Khan takes on corporate monopolies and Big Tech with aggressive approach, now she's targeting noncompete agreements as Silicon Valley changes its business practices in response.

With its litany of lawsuits, the FTC has signaled to tech giants that it's keeping an eye on them.

By all accounts, Khan is a hard worker with a nose-to-the-grindstone ethos. While the entirety of her tenure at the FTC has been during the pandemic, she's gone into the office whenever she can, according to aAt just 33, Khan has already built a resume that includes being a law professor at Columbia University and legal counsel for the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.

Within a month of her joining the FTC, both Amazon and Facebook sent the agency motions saying Khan should recuse herself from decisions on antitrust cases involving those companies.

 

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Sounds like she’s doing a great job.

China be very happy.

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