FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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FTC Chair Lina Khan joins Ed Zitron to talk about competitiveness in the tech industry, controlling the cloud giants, and what should give you hope as we head into 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm your host at Zitron. |
| 0:47.9 | Better Offline. |
| 0:50.7 | Today I am joined by the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lena Khan. |
| 0:53.6 | Lena, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:55.9 | Great to be here. |
| 0:57.2 | So, on a simple level, what does the FTC actually do? |
| 1:01.4 | So the FTC enforces America's antitrust and consumer protection laws. |
| 1:06.0 | And so these are the laws that try to ensure that our markets are fair and honest and competitive. |
| 1:12.2 | And so that means we're looking to protect people from illegal monopolies. |
| 1:16.0 | We're trying to protect people from all sorts of frauds and scams. |
| 1:19.6 | We're trying to protect people's privacy and wanting to make sure that they're not subjected to all sorts of unfair practices. |
| 1:25.8 | We were created 110 years ago. And so it's a pretty big mandate. |
| 1:31.7 | We have oversight across markets, across the entire economy for the most part, with some exceptions, |
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