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You know, out of all the things that the Biden administration fucked up and they did

fuck up a lot of shit.

One of their best decisions, though, was to orient the federal government a bit more towards

taking on corporate power for the first time in literal decades.

And one of the main ways they did this was by appointing Lena Khan, a 32-year-old legal scholar with very little to no experience in government to be the chair of the Federal Trade Commission.

Now, this was a sea change in the way American government treated monopolies and corporate power.

Because for the three years, Lena Khan was in charge of the FTC, she changed the

agency's approach to antitrust enforcement and consumer protection. She actively pursued

cases to combat monopolies and ensure fair competition, which was something that the government

had stopped doing for dozens of years. Under her leadership, the FTC went after the anti-competitive tactics of tech giants like

Amazon and meta. She finalized rules to ban non-compete clauses in employment, which gave workers

more freedom in the workplace. She enforced the right to repair for electronics equipment,

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