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What Next TBD: Big Tech’s Boogeymen In Washington

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 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 If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

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My conversation with Bloomberg News reporter Leon Nylon started out kind of nerdy.

1:13.0

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 antitrust law.

1:30.0

And I am fairly certain that you know what I'm talking about.

1:34.0

I do indeed.

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She knows because the woman who wrote that article or note as they call it in the Yale Law World

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is now the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lena Khan, the youngest ever in commission history.

1:50.0

So Lena Khan wrote what you know is sort of like a rock star academic article.

1:56.0

And like that does sound extremely nerdy. I know.

1:59.0

But for antitrust law, this was like a viral article which you know things don't really go viral

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