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She made her career or reinventing the definition of monopoly to include Amazon and big tech companies to date. At worst she’s a cynical, corrupt government app
by sashank_1509 3y ago
She made her career or reinventing the definition of monopoly to include Amazon and big tech companies to date. At worst she’s a cynical, corrupt government apparatchik who uses the massive hammer of the government to bully productive industries and enrich herself with fame and money. At best she is an ignorant, foolish government apparatchik who squeezes the goose laying golden eggs to death and then wonders how she managed to make the worlds most innovative place completely barren of innovation, vitality thus dooming her society. She almost makes me want to vote republican, and that’s saying something as I’ve never voted republican my entire life.
- andsoitis 3y ago> She made her career or reinventing the definition of monopoly to include Amazon and big tech companies to date. Is this what you're referring to? https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011907383/new-ftc-chair-lina-khan-wants-to-redefine-monopoly-power-for-the-age-of-big-tech https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011907383/new-ftc-chair-lina...
- Conscat 3y agoIf she did actually redefine monopoly in that way, without more detail it at least sounds like a useful redefinition.
- patmorgan23 3y agoNo she made her career by stating the obvious that maybe it wasn't a good idea for the FTC to forgo anti-trust enforcement for 40 years. Oh no the trillion dollar tech giants have to undergo some scrutiny, how ever will they continue to pay their executives and shareholders millions.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- catlover76 3y agoMassively idiotic take. She isn't enriching herself by pursuing this agenda, which she began developing as a law student. On the contrary, had she gone into biglaw to work on antitrust defense for companies like Amazon and Apple, that would be a path to cynical self-enrichment. We have no evidence that the implementation of her policies or whatever she is pursuing has or will "make the worlds most innovative place completely barren of innovation, vitality thus dooming her society" (what a bloviating fucking diva you are). She also isn't the only one who thinks the market dominance of these big tech firms has been an impediment to innovation and disruption because smaller startups can't compete, get bought and squashed early, etc.
- barry-cotter 3y agoIf someone does things that are bad out of sincere moral belief they’re just as bad as if they did them out of desire for enrichment. Khan’s attempt to return anti-trust law to its roots of ignoring consumer harms and straightforwardly punishing size and success is bad.
- catlover76 3y agoSo "who cares if someone is accusing her of bad faith and other bad acts, given that her policies are bad"? Does that make logical sense or seem fair to you? Like, maybe her policies are bad, I'm not sure, but the other poster a) just went for baseless accusations against her that are not only not supported by any evidence, but actually undermined but facts as they exist; b) acted as though the hyperbolic consequences they ascribed to her policies actually do in fact exist.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 3y agoPlease don't post in the flamewar style, call names, or fulminate on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and you can make your substantive points without any of it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html