One post, authored by Khan’s staff, was published on January 3, 2025, with the title “AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm.” It noted that the FTC was “taking note of AI’s potential for real-world instances of harm — from incentivizing commercial surveillance to enabling fraud and impersonation to perpetuating illegal discrimination.”
You talk about it like she just sat there, once she was appointed.
I think that discounts the agency that Lina Khan had and still has post appointment.
She speaks quite passionately about pro consumer economic policies and actually started cracking down on some of monopolies that hurt consumers. Hell of a lot more than I’ve seen from many US politicians recently.
Either way I don’t think I’m changing your mind so I’ll stop here.
She speaks quite passionately about pro consumer economic policies and actually started cracking down on some of monopolies that hurt consumers. Hell of a lot more than I’ve seen from many US politicians recently.
Her main problem was that she went after companies over things that weren’t illegal purely for ideological reasons, knowing the FTC didn’t have a hope in hell of winning. It’s a terrible strategy and it massively hurt them, along with consumers ironically, as it made the FTC look incompetent, weaponized, and gave the big tech companies wins on the board that could be used for future cases.
You talk about it like she just sat there, once she was appointed.
I think that discounts the agency that Lina Khan had and still has post appointment.
She speaks quite passionately about pro consumer economic policies and actually started cracking down on some of monopolies that hurt consumers. Hell of a lot more than I’ve seen from many US politicians recently.
Either way I don’t think I’m changing your mind so I’ll stop here.
Her main problem was that she went after companies over things that weren’t illegal purely for ideological reasons, knowing the FTC didn’t have a hope in hell of winning. It’s a terrible strategy and it massively hurt them, along with consumers ironically, as it made the FTC look incompetent, weaponized, and gave the big tech companies wins on the board that could be used for future cases.