Lina Khan, the departing chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said that Democrats and Republicans cooperated on some competition and consumer protection issues during her tenure, including on Big Tech.
“There has been this bipartisan concern about what happens when we allow markets to become very dominated by fewer companies,” Khan said during a Jan. 8 conversation at the Brookings Institution in D.C. when asked about red state attorneys general joining FTC actions.
“We had a bipartisan coalition join our lawsuit taking on Amazon,” she noted.
The FTC’s 2023 lawsuit, which accused the tech giant of using illegal means to maintain a monopoly, was joined by various states, including deep-red Oklahoma….