The senate confirmed Lina Khan, an established critic of tech companies' market power, to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission by a 69-28 margin, picking up support from a bipartisan coalition favoring more aggressive action against Big Tech.
The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm a leading critic of Amazon to the Federal Trade Commission. Even many business-friendly Republicans voted "yea."
Not only did the Senate vote Tuesday to confirm Lina Khan, an established critic of tech companies' market power, to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission, which shares federal enforcement of antitrust law with the Department of Justice, but the vote,Khan, 32, a law professor, picked up support from 21 Republicans who joined an emerging bipartisan coalition that favors more aggressive action against Big Tech.
"There's more agreement on competition," said Justin Brookman, a former FTC policy director who's now director of consumer privacy and technology policy for Consumer Reports.
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