Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, March 9th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Is Joe Biden about to name the architect of the current antitrust movement to a seat on the

FTC. Our other bad actors swooping in to take advantage of the Solar Winds

hack? Is Microsoft going to play both sides of the fence with new Surface

devices and why popular

youtubers are suddenly building their own platforms. Here's what you miss

today in the world of tech.

I said what was it, Friday with the news of the Tim Wu hire that who President

Biden was hiring to staff the various agencies that would oversee the tech industry

was telegraphing a lot in terms of his administration's intentions

towards the tech industry. Well this news is just as suggestive of where things are maybe going.

Sources are telling Ryan Liza at Playbook that President Biden has decided to nominate

Lena Khan, a Legal Scholar championed by anti big tech activists,

to an actual seat on the Federal Trade Commission.

That's the commission that okay things like tech mergers quoting playbook.

Con would be one of three Democratic commissioners at the agency which oversees

privacy, data security, and some antitrust enforcement at a time when it's faced sharp

criticism for not doing enough to police major tech firms like Google and

Facebook over their privacy practices and past mergers. At age 32, Kahn would also be the youngest FTC commissioner ever.

Kahn served as an aid to the House Judiciary Antitrust Committees probe into antitrust and

major tech platforms including Amazon, Apple, Google, and

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