Comment by kevingadd
2 days ago
This is largely the work of Lina Khan and the people reporting to her. She's fairly new to the FTC still (Biden appointee) and has been intentionally pushing on all of this.
Protecting it is difficult since the house/senate and scotus are all determined to roll back pro-consumer laws but that's not really something the FTC can fix, only voters can fix that.
Voters don't seem to see these things as important though based on how they voted most recently. They have other priorities I suppose.
I'll be generous and say that voters are distracted by other things. easy unsubscribe is great, but it's never going to win an election.
I'll also be cynical and say that voters were also lacking critical thinking in terms of how the president elect simply said he'd do things with no action plan behind it. He already went back on several "promises" even before properly stepping in as President. This is just shame on us at this point.
> Voters don't seem to see these things as important though based on how they voted most recently. They have other priorities I suppose.
This is why saying "but you can elect new officials" is a canard. You only have two choices, each with thousands of consequences.
Harris wouldn't even commit to keeping Lina Khan on.
Lina Khan deserves all the praise and then some.
Banning non-competes, preventing Microsoft-Blizzard merger (amongst many others), enforcing the right-to-repair, filing lawsuits to lower drug prices, making cancelling subscriptions easier...
Your friendly reminder that both Amazon and Meta were openly against her taking the position, that the upcoming administration will scrap the antitrust lawsuits against both of them (the one against Meta was supposed to start in spring, the one against Amazon in 2026) and that this is why Bezos and Zuckerberg are cozying up to Trump.
She did not prevent the Microsoft-Blizzard merger. The FTC lost that case.
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