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Biden to nominate Big Tech adversary Jonathan Kanter to helm the Justice Dept.'s antitrust division
Tech Policy
Biden to nominate Big Tech adversary Jonathan Kanter to helm the Justice Dept.’s antitrust division
It’s the latest sign of the administration’s willingness to crack down on the power and influence of Silicon Valley titans
By Cat Zakrzewski and Tyler Pager
Yesterday at 6:22 p.m. EDT
President Biden said he plans to nominate Jonathan Kanter, who has long opposed Big Tech companies as a lawyer, to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division. It’s the latest sign of the administration’s willingness to crack down on the power and influence of Silicon Valley titans.
Kanter is known as an adversary of giant tech corporations including Google and Apple. He has represented large companies like Microsoft, as well as smaller tech companies like Google critic Yelp. He is a partner at the Kanter Law Group, which describes itself as “an antitrust advocacy boutique.”
“Throughout his career, Kanter has also been a leading advocate and expert in the effort to promote strong and meaningful antitrust enforcement and competition policy,” the White House said in a news release.
The nomination would fill a critical vacancy amid a broader administration effort to crack down on concentration in the economy, particularly in the tech sector. Biden this month signed a sweeping executive order targeting corporate consolidation, which directly challenges the path that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple took to dominance.
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By Cat Zakrzewski
Cat Zakrzewski is a technology policy reporter and authors the Washington Post's Technology 202 newsletter. Twitter https://twitter.com/Cat_Zakrzewski
By Tyler Pager
Tyler Pager is a White House reporter at The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 2021 after covering the White House at Politico and the 2020 presidential campaign at Bloomberg News. Twitter https://twitter.com/tylerpager
Biden to nominate Big Tech adversary Jonathan Kanter to helm the Justice Dept.’s antitrust division
It’s the latest sign of the administration’s willingness to crack down on the power and influence of Silicon Valley titans
By Cat Zakrzewski and Tyler Pager
Yesterday at 6:22 p.m. EDT
President Biden said he plans to nominate Jonathan Kanter, who has long opposed Big Tech companies as a lawyer, to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division. It’s the latest sign of the administration’s willingness to crack down on the power and influence of Silicon Valley titans.
Kanter is known as an adversary of giant tech corporations including Google and Apple. He has represented large companies like Microsoft, as well as smaller tech companies like Google critic Yelp. He is a partner at the Kanter Law Group, which describes itself as “an antitrust advocacy boutique.”
“Throughout his career, Kanter has also been a leading advocate and expert in the effort to promote strong and meaningful antitrust enforcement and competition policy,” the White House said in a news release.
The nomination would fill a critical vacancy amid a broader administration effort to crack down on concentration in the economy, particularly in the tech sector. Biden this month signed a sweeping executive order targeting corporate consolidation, which directly challenges the path that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple took to dominance.
{snip}
By Cat Zakrzewski
Cat Zakrzewski is a technology policy reporter and authors the Washington Post's Technology 202 newsletter. Twitter https://twitter.com/Cat_Zakrzewski
By Tyler Pager
Tyler Pager is a White House reporter at The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 2021 after covering the White House at Politico and the 2020 presidential campaign at Bloomberg News. Twitter https://twitter.com/tylerpager
