Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, June 16th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Lena Khan has not only been confirmed as an FTC commissioner, she's also been named the

FTC chair. Weimo raises a big new round which is soups interesting.

Spotify joins the audio room's sweepstakes, a Windows 11 build leaks, and forget Apple stores, would

you visit an actual Apple Health Clinic?

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech. Yesterday the United States Senate voted 69 to 28 to confirm Lena Khan, a seat on the Federal Trade Commission that was expected.

Ms. Khan's confirmation was not really in doubt.

What was somewhat surprising was the news that President Biden then named Khan,

the antitrust theorist who has done more than anyone else

to advance the idea that antitrust needs to move beyond mere price and consumer harm, to consider

the question of market distortion by firms of large size in a market

as the actual chair of the FTC, quoting the New York Times.

Ms. Khan 32 was sworn in on Tuesday, making her the youngest chair in the FTC's history.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to protect the public from corporate abuse, she said in a statement.

In her new role, Ms. Khan will lead efforts to regulate the kind of

behavior highlighted for years by critics of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple.

She told a Senate committee in April that she was worried about the way tech companies could use their power to

dominate new markets.

The agency is investigating Amazon, which Ms. Khan has been highly critical of, and filed an

antitrust suit against Facebook last year.

Her appointment was a victory for progressive activists who want Mr. Biden to take a hard line against big companies.

He also gave a White House job to Tim Wu, a law professor who has criticized the power of the tech giants. The president has

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