Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan - whose agency filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday - published a major academic article in 2017 arguing the online retailer had escaped antitrust scrutiny. 'With its missionary zeal for consumers, Amazon has marched toward monopoly by singing the tune of contemporary antitrust,' Khan, then 29, wrote in the Yale Law Journal. Amazon 'has evaded government scrutiny in part through fervently devoting its business strategy and rhetoric to reducing prices for consumers.'
WASHINGTON - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan - whose agency filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday - published a major academic article in 2017 arguing the online retailer had escaped antitrust scrutiny.
Khan said on Tuesday that Amazon "has used a set of punitive and coercive tactics to unlawfully maintain its monopolies." She argued that the company is "exploiting its monopoly power to enrich itself while raising prices and degrading service for the tens of millions of American families who shop on its platform." Amazon rejected
Amazon has fought back and rejected the antitrust lawsuit filed on Tuesday. In 2021, the retailing giant filed a petition asking for Khan to be recused on Amazon-related matters, saying she had "repeatedly called for breaking up Amazon throughout her career."Previously, as a staffer for the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, she helped write a massive report alleging abuses of market dominance by Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms' Facebook and Alphabet's Google.
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