Amazon to be broken up? FTC's Lina Khan to reportedly file landmark antitrust lawsuit

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43. Amazon is most definitely a market controlling/influencing force, a malevolent one at the end of the

day IMHO, along with many other big tech actors.

The Biden administration's FTC agrees with this and I fully support them.

Who doesn't agree, amongst others?

Jim Jordan harassing and intimidating Federal Trade Commission employees

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218123950

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Republicans attack FTC chair and big tech critic Lina Khan at House hearing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/13/lina-khan-hearing-ftc-chair-republican-regulations-meta-google

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The FTC’s list of battles with big tech companies is growing.

Hours earlier on Thursday, Twitter – which now legally goes by X Corp – asked a federal court to terminate a 2011 settlement with the FTC that placed restrictions on its user data and privacy practices. Khan noted Twitter voluntarily entered into that agreement.

Also on Thursday, the Washington Post reported the FTC opened an investigation into OpenAI on whether its chatbot, ChatGPT, is harmful to consumers. A spokesperson for the FTC would not comment on the OpenAI investigation but Khan said during the hearing that “it has been publicly reported”.

In 2017, Khan, now 34, gained fame for an academic article she wrote as a law student at Yale that used Amazon’s business practices to explain gaps in US antitrust policy. Biden announced he intended to nominate the antitrust researcher to head the FTC in March 2021. She was sworn in that June.

“Chair Khan has delivered results for families, consumers, workers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs,” the White House spokesperson Michael Kikukawa said in a statement.