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Companies may exploit their market power in a host of competition-distorting ways that do not directly lead to short-term price and output effects.
Lina M. Khan • Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox | Yale Law Journal
Critically, consumer interests include not only cost but also product quality, variety, and innovation.
Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox | Yale Law Journal
At its inception between the 1960s and 1990s, the internet was imagined as a decentralized, horizontal and open space that would foster freedom and equality. Today, it is a collection of walled gardens, a hierarchical ecosystem ruled by a few gatekeepers who leverage access to data, attention and infrastructural capability to enclose users and... See more
Ethan Mollick • Article
NEW @BW feature: "Who's Afraid of Lina Khan?"
Based on conversations with 100 people - billionaires, service workers, agency heads, executives, VCs, senators, scholars, advocates, current/former FTC staff, & Khan herself, at HQ & on the road.
Unpaywalled: https://t.co/wijZQpoMZ5
Josh Eidelsonx.com
'In our democracy right now there is an open question' on whether 'monopolists in extraordinarily powerful firms are going to be able to corrupt the political process and interfere with legitimate law enforcement' — Joe Biden's antitrust boss Lina Khan https://t.co/mrtht7T6em https://t.co/Wa2vHwTomH
Just spoke to FTC Chair Lina Khan. I pointed to the many prominent tech leaders endorsing Trump and asked how she thinks her agenda has impacted the tech community. Also asked what she thinks of JD Vance given he’s praised her work. Take a listen:
https://t.co/lm3hOHF6HZ
Emily Changx.comThe finite resources in this world — natural, land, people’s time — are all managed through one system, and this system is currently over-indexed on encouraging corporations to pursue profit at the expense of societal welfare.
Wendy Liu • Abolish Silicon Valley
This is *incredible*. Pentwater Capital has made hundreds of millions of dollars by shorting Lina Khan.
Knowing how inept Khan is, they bought huge stakes in all the companies she tried to destroy by shutting down M&A
When the fool Khan lost repeatedly in court, they made $$$... See more