{"id":33198,"date":"2021-03-22T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33198"},"modified":"2021-03-22T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:00:22","slug":"lina-khan-to-get-ftc-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33198","title":{"rendered":"Lina Khan to get FTC nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Monday announced his intention to nominate influential antitrust scholar Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).<\/p>\n<p>Khan, a 32-year-old associate professor at Columbia Law School, would be the youngest FTC commissioner if confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>She is best known for a paper written while a law student at Yale titled \u201cAmazon\u2019s Antitrust Paradox,\u201d which laid out how the e-commerce giant could be violating antitrust law.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Khan served as an aide to the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee during its investigation into the monopoly power of major digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s happy about this:<\/strong>\u00a0Progressive critics of big tech have been pushing for Khan&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA champion of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and working people, Professor Lina Khan is an extraordinary choice for the Federal Trade Commission,\u201d said Sarah Miller, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Monday announced his&#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":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33198","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=33198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33199,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33198\/revisions\/33199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}