Comment on FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source
AmidFuror@fedia.io 5 months ago
As we can see, Biden (and we can assume also his would-be successor Harris) was just another Democrat beholden to corporate interests. He used Lina Khan to further the appearance of caring about consumers and working on their behalf.
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.
Your not wrong that corporations win regardless of the party but how does a Trump appointee removing posts turn into an example of democrats being guilty of this?
Like, there is a inexhaustible lists of examples of how the class war is ingrained in politics, you don’t need to invent them.
So, what’s your alternate username from lemmy.ml?
Private Szjulbyakov, perfectly normal western capitalist name, why?
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You obviously did not follow the woman’s work. She was hitting monopolies hard when no one else had the guts to. She was our lest best hope to break the oligarchy.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 months ago
She was claiming things (monopoly, anti-consumer, etc) where they didn’t exist though, and was doing more harm than good by doing so (seems like a democrat/lefty trait at this stage). By going after companies with nonsense claims that don’t have any facts or legal arguments behind them, all she did was make the FTC a laughing stock, drive their best minds away, and help the big companies get away with any actual bad things they do in the future.