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I'm going to miss Lina Khan. It is unfortunate that a government contractor with a dumb grudge is going to be allowed to decide her fate. As far as I can tell
by akira2501 2y ago
I'm going to miss Lina Khan. It is unfortunate that a government contractor with a dumb grudge is going to be allowed to decide her fate. As far as I can tell she's been doing great work over there.
- jordanb 2y agoShe was cooked either way. Kamala's financiers were also demanding she fire Lina.
- grugagag 2y agoMaybe she’s a real obstacle and we should aim to put her back there at some point in the future.
- saturn8601 2y agoThere was a fighting chance with Kamala though as the progressive wing of the party (AOC, Bernie etc.) were gearing up to raise holy hell to protect Kahn.
- BadHumans 2y agoI will follow the remainder of her career with great interest.
- alexpetralia 2y agoActually Matt Gaetz, who will likely be her boss, calls himself a "Khanservative" in support of her
- bearjaws 2y agoBut what does Donald want? It doesn't matter at all what Matt Gaetz wants.
- alephnerd 2y agoMost of the Trump-sphere's donations and organization came from Andressen (the A in A16Z), David Sacks (especially during his fundraiser last year that was a who's who of YC and VCs), and Thiel. They are all in support of Lina Khan's position on anti-trust, as it aligns closely with the vision of LTSE (YC S17) plus their grudge/annoyance at the fact that late stage acquisitions don't benefit early stage investors as much as an IPO or SPAC, plus their annoyance at how early stage investors can't take advantage of the IPO "Pop". This has been a major fissure in the tech industry for almost a decade at this point. To be fair, Horowitz (the Z in A16Z) donated to Harris's campaign to lobby for the same thing as well.
- jordanb 2y agoElon wants her gone: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851985438933668337 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851985438933668337
- alephnerd 2y agoMusk is just one donor among dozens. One of the biggest donor yes, but not enough to move the needle. Also, the presidency is not enough to move the needle - you need down ballot support from both houses of Congress as well, which is a relationship Musk did not build unlike other donors.
- collingreen 2y agoOne donor, thanked at length by name in the president's acceptance speech, and immediately appointed over a brand new office about "efficiency" after yelling incessantly about deleting entire government departments. Elon has a huge amount of influence over khan's future and the ftc's ability to continue in its recent push to actually protect the American consumers.
- alephnerd 2y ago> brand new office DOGE is a presidential task force. They are impotent like any other task force. If you want something to worry about with the new administration, worry about the shitshow that Senate confirmation will be for much of 2025 as Senate Leadership and the Executive will clash > the ftc's ability The Khan style vision of antitrust (which I strongly oppose as well btw) will continue under Trump as it did under Biden. It has bipartisan support because of bipartisan donor relations. Oren Cass, Lina Khan, Matt Stoller, and Rohit Chopra are all cut from the same cloth.
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- mathgradthrow 2y agoMatt Gaetz definitely had sex with a 17 year old girl, and his friend who did the same got 11 years in prison for it.
- akira2501 2y ago[flagged]
- typeofhuman 2y agoIt was more than a "lack of action" by the DOJ, they full on cleared him of any wrongdoing.
- mtnGoat 2y agoYou really should check your facts on that first statement my friend. Frankly you are dead wrong and should not be spreading this kind of false info, it’s dangerous to minors. Only 24 states have age of consent below 18, and a number of those have restrictions on age gaps between participants. And of those 24 states that don’t come close to covering “the majority” of the population of the United States.
- typeofhuman 2y agoThey were two states off from being factually correct with their "majority" comment. Barely an exaggeration and far from warranting your overreaction.
- jordanb 2y agoMaybe we should also cling to hope because JD said some nice things about her too but let's be real: the billionaires want her gone. Elon has already tweeted that she will be fired. There's no way she will be able to stay on.
- tgma 2y agoShe will be gone for symbolism if nothing else. Some of the policies attacking big tech (read: Google) may remain, but hardline acquisition ban will get relaxed for sure.
- zamalek 2y agoLet's not forget that Rosenworcel is also likely to be replaced by a sock Paipet. She has also been doing great work at the FCC.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoFCC great work including what results? Spam via SMS and calls hasn’t been conquered at all and it’s 18 years since the “donotcall” registry went live.
- zamalek 2y agoI don't get robocalls anymore.
- bagels 2y agoI do, every day.
- zeven7 2y agoThen you are unique
- Wistar 2y agoAt least two a day on landline, starting right at 8am, and at least five or six a day on my cell.
- zamalek 2y agoHave any of you reported the calls [1]? They can't do anything about something they know nothing about, and they have taken extremely aggressive action in the past [2]. [1]: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls-and-texts https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls... [2]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-395670A1.pdf https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-395670A1.pdf
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- epa 2y agoBlocking the sale of spirit airlines which resulted in its bankruptcy. Claiming that the sale of the Roomba makers would lead to a monopoly. Where is the ‘great’ you speak of?
- akira2501 2y agoBankruptcy is a part of law for a reason. They can choose to restructure or to sell off. This is healthy turnover. And how you are disadvantaged by two robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers not merging? Would you feel differently if you worked for one of them? You've cherry picked two examples. This is mud slinging and not genuine analysis.
- robertlagrant 2y ago> They can choose to restructure or to sell off I'm not familiar, but isn't the parent comment saying the sale was blocked?
- PunchTornado 2y agothey can be bought by another company, other investors, for a different price.
- rsynnott 2y agoA specific sale was blocked on antitrust grounds. The proposed sale to Frontier would likely not have been, but the shareholders blocked it. A sale to, like, something other than an airline would certainly not be blocked.
- cscurmudgeon 2y agoBeing completely lax against shady companies from China for unknown reasons: https://nbcmontana.com/amp/news/nation-world/calls-federal-investigation-online-chinese-retailers-stores-temu-companies-shein-communist-party-lawmakers-consumer-advocates-competition-forced-labor-advertising-social-media-companies-meta-facebook-instagram-google https://nbcmontana.com/amp/news/nation-world/calls-federal-i...
- fakedang 2y agoThank f** she's going soon. No, I don't mind her going after anti-trust targets. I do mind her agency doing this in the final days of this presidency. This is all for brownie points and nothing else. Nadella will have a nice sit-down with Trump and this investigation will fly to the winds.
- BadHumans 2y ago> final days of this presidency She started the job in the middle of 2021 and in 2022 the FTC blocked Nvidia/ARM merger and sued Facebook, Twitter, and Frontier Communications. This information isn't hard to find.
- fakedang 2y agoYeah, and somehow her work was super selective? Meanwhile Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard and made OpenAI its "marketing bitch" (as Musk puts it). Somehow Microsoft always escaped the chains.
- BadHumans 2y agoThey sued to stop that acquisition and lost the case while Microsoft was forced to make concessions elsewhere. Given that the acquisition was cleared in several countries I don't think you can lay the blame at the FTC's feet.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agohttps://nypost.com/2024/11/15/business/contenders-trump-is-vetting-to-replace-ftc-chair-lina-khan-sources/ https://nypost.com/2024/11/15/business/contenders-trump-is-v...