Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington
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🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are both staffed with accomplished progressives who are proving more aggressive than their predecessors in either the Trump or Obama eras. But can Big Tech be tamed?
Guest: Leah Nylen, reporter for Bloomberg News
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 1:07.5 | My conversation with Bloomberg News reporter Leon Nylon started out kind of nerdy. |
| 1:13.7 | I actually want to start this episode in 2017 with a note in the Yale Law Journal. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. The writer then a student at Yale Law made a novel argument about anti-trust law |
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| 1:43.6 | is now the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. |
| 1:46.4 | Lena Khan, the youngest ever in Commission history. |
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