The vote was 69-28 in a Senate split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, signaling the growing bipartisan interest in reining in large tech companies' power, just days after House lawmakers from both parties unveiled a series of bills that could force Silicon Valley companies to change their business practices and in the most severe cases, break the companies up.
Khan, who is aligned with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, is well-known for her 2017 paper, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," which argued that decades-old antitrust laws aren't equipped to deal with the e-commerce giant and the unique ways it exerts its dominance. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Khan previously worked as a counsel for the House Judiciary's antitrust panel, where she helped lead an investigation into the tech giants. That probe's findings of monopoly-style tactics and anti-competitive behavior at Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon gave rise to the recent bills introduced by House lawmakers.
Khan, 32, will be one of the youngest commissioners in the FTC's history after a meteoric rise since writing the Amazon paper as a law school student. She is an associate professor at Columbia Law School, and previously worked as a legal adviser to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra (D).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Wednesday June 16 2021, @05:39AM
Tech giants ... FAA(N)G ... antitrust ... it's gotta suck to not even be mentioned [justice.gov] in a sentence that hits so many of those targets.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Frosty Piss on Wednesday June 16 2021, @05:48AM (1 child)
I think breaking up the giants like Facebook, Amazon, all the rest, it’s not going to happen simply because these “people” have so much money that anything that gets very threatening will be litigated FOR FUCKING YEARS. But…
If it were to happen, what would that landscape look like, dozens of spun off bits of what are essentially useless fuff. This is not the same as the breakup of the Bell System, Amazon and Facebook are not really necessary, they are simply Consumer Products.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @06:27AM
America has done it before. Remember Standard Oil, and the Rockefellers? Or Carnegie, with steel? Or, perhaps, the Fox News monopoly on really stupid blondes? We can take legal action against all of these. "No more Boopsies! Kaitlyn Lied! Donald is not a natural Blonde!" See, it works.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @06:24AM (12 children)
Bipartisan is an outlandish concept in today's polarized America. This is more a signal that Big Tech has become so corrupt that everyone has taken notice.
For starters, those sons of bitches have no rights to my data. They have no good reason to track me, without a court order permitting them to do so. They have no right to sell or trade my data. And, that data, more than anything, has enabled them to squeeze out the competition who has no access to the data.
When Target knows that you are pregnant before you or your doctor knows, there is something seriously wrong with Big Tech.
https://bettermarketing.pub/target-knows-youre-pregnant-before-anyone-else-and-it-s-making-them-billions-7c4972a9bfab [bettermarketing.pub]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @06:30AM (1 child)
Dayum! Runaway! You preggers again? I done told you to take precautions! What are you, some kind of Trump slut?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @06:47AM
I'm almost immortal. I'll always live in your head. It sure is a tiny little place, pretty dirty, and it has the echo chamber from hell. I guess I'll get used to it. Oh yeah, the sewer is backed up.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @08:02AM (8 children)
No laws interdicting them to do so, unless you are a child unable to take care of yourself.
And they do have pretty good reason to track you, it's their profits.
Whatever happened with conservative values? Like the responsibility for ones actions, why did you let your data leaked to them in the first place?
Genuinely interested, what would you like more:
- every competitors to have equal access to your personal data for the sake of equal competition or
- laws and imposition on the market freedom to protect your data from every competitor in the market?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @08:55AM (4 children)
Peeping Tom and Gossip Gabby aren't exactly "conservative values".
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @09:09AM (1 child)
Ah, now the conservatives ask every person to be conservatives or else...?
What about you? No longer "live and let live"? No longer "if it's not illegal, it's permitted"?
Last time I checked neither Peeping Tom nor Gossip Gabby were illegal.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday June 16 2021, @03:06PM
Peeping Tom is definitely an invasion of privacy and depending on the situation can be highly illegal.
Gossip Gabby is still safe, more or less.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 16 2021, @04:31PM (1 child)
So I guess you want the nanny state to prevent me from entering into an agreement with a website that allows me to exchange my data in return for a service I find valuable?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @06:28PM
Nope, of course not. Your personal information is yours to share and/or give away as you see fit. The only "nanny" sort of thing that I want, would be something along the lines of Europe's GDPR. You have to knowingly, and willingly give explicit permission for the corporation to use your data. And, if that corporation harvests more data from your computer than you have authorized, then they are guilty of "hacking" your data. You know, that whole "unauthorized access" thing we discussed recently.
Today, the corporations take EVERYTHING POSSIBLE, without even asking.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:11AM
Don't mind him, cognitive dissonance in his lifestyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:12PM (1 child)
Goog is using every techincal means at their disposal to exfiltrate data from people's usage of the internet, the cellular phone system, wireless networks, and who knows what else. This includes people who have not agreed to be part of this data collection.
You ask 'why do they let it happen?' Guess what, that sword cuts both ways.
Spammers can use goog's services to spread spam. Hackers can use them to cause disruptions and spread malware. Everyone can use them to redistribute copyrighted material without a license. And why shouldn't they do this, if it's just goog's fault for letting it happen?
If you want to argue for a return to the 'wld west' internet with no rules, by all means make your case. But as it stands there is an obvious asymmetry. Rules for thee but not for me. Corporations already got laws passed telling people not to do things corporations don't like. Now, maybe people should be able to ask for laws telling corporations not to do what people don't like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 17 2021, @12:28AM
Good. Now ask Runaway1956 to reconcile his conservative stance with his willingness to impose rules that affect goog but let him live his life as he wishes
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @04:08PM
> Bipartisan is an outlandish concept in today's polarized America.
The McConnell Switch as it will be known to historians. He's basically prepping the electorate for total obstruction. And when his team get in power again, the opposite. As long as his supporters eat their own dog food to see how yummy it tastes, go run with it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @10:38PM
KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!