Can Amazon Withstand the Wrath of Khan?
U.S. antitrust enforcement actions against Big Tech will gain a powerful advocate with the confirmation of FTC nominee and legal scholar Lina Khan.
Big Tech will face big antitrust headaches with Lina Khan’s likely confirmation as FTC commissioner.
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Federal Trade Commission nominee Lina Khan is an exceptionally vocal critic of Amazon.com Inc. If confirmed, the legal scholar would play a big role in shaping the agency’s antitrust enforcement policy — which makes her current social media presence all the more interesting.
It’s been nearly two months since the Biden administration nominated her for the position, and yet the tweet pinned to the top of her Twitter profile remains her seminal 2017 Yale Law Journal article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” which calls Amazon’s behavior anticompetitive. That could be a very bad sign for the company.