{"id":32640,"date":"2021-03-09T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32640"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T01:48:11","slug":"biden-reportedly-taps-top-antitrust-scholar-for-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32640","title":{"rendered":"Biden reportedly taps top antitrust scholar for FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is set to nominate influential antitrust scholar Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/okzmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrnttzkqjt_okjtwwjzjdtltwjzqmrq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/okzmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrnttzkqjt_okjtwwjzjdtltwjzqmrq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615416465572000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElutJSRaJsELqMTzXOT79v4_WFUw\">Politico reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia University associate professor would be the second person Biden has nominated to a key position who has been heavily pushed by progressive Big Tech critics.<\/p>\n<p>Biden last week appointed Tim Wu as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy last week.<\/p>\n<p>Khan&#8217;s nomination requires the Senate&#8217;s confirmation, while Wu&#8217;s does not.<\/p>\n<p>Khan is best known for writing \u201cAmazon\u2019s Antitrust Paradox,\u201d a paper which laid out how the e-commerce giant could be violating antitrust law, while a law student at Yale.<\/p>\n<p>She also served as an aide to the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee during its investigation into the monopoly power of major digital platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is set to nominate&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32642,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640\/revisions\/32642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}