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Lina Khan first grew to become recognized for a 2017 article she wrote for the Yale Law Journal, referred to as “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.” Then a twenty-seven-year-old legislation scholar, she made robust arguments in favor of regulating Big Tech corporations. The article established Khan as a central determine in a brand new technology of antitrust activists, who say that the federal government has been complicit in company consolidation, and see a scarcity of regulation as contributing to social and financial disparities. Earlier this yr, President Biden appointed Khan to be the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces federal antitrust legislation. Sheelah Kolhatkar joins Dorothy Wickenden to debate the historical past of monopolies within the U.S., how Khan is aggressively pursuing malefactors in Silicon Valley, and the challenges she faces.
