"Around six years ago, a new rallying cry rippled through Washington: "Break Up Big Tech." It was a slogan emblazoned on campaign posters, uttered at congressional hearings, and beginning, it seemed, to echo through the halls of the nation's antitrust enforcers. Momentum in the legislatures eventually petered out, but the enforcers at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission remained more active than ever."
"President Joe Biden never took the kind of hard posture on Big Tech that political rivals like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) or Bernie Sanders (I-VT) adopted, but nevertheless, when he became president in 2021, he tapped Lina Khan - who'd first made a name for herself as a law student laying out an antitrust case against Amazon in The Yale Law Journal - to head up the Federal Trade Commission."
Around six years ago, "Break Up Big Tech" emerged as a prominent political slogan across Washington, appearing on campaign materials and at congressional hearings. Legislative efforts to dismantle large technology companies gradually lost steam, even as federal enforcers intensified scrutiny. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission increased activity on antitrust matters. In 2021, Lina Khan, known for an antitrust analysis of Amazon, was appointed to lead the FTC. A growing number of legal complaints targeting Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple accumulated, some originating under the previous administration and alleging monopolistic behavior.
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