A market in which the only ideas that are ever brought to market are the ideas that you think will be appealing… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
One of the effects of antitrust becoming a more technocratic enterprise and arcane over the last few decades has been that in… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Start-ups are historically a key driver of job creation and innovation, but several studies have found that noncompetes reduce entrepreneurship and start-up… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
We want to make sure that major businesses are not exploiting their power to inflate prices for American families at the grocery… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I worry that there has been a perception in the market that businesses can sometimes get a free pass if they're too… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
So, the antitrust laws in the United States don't create some kind of cap on a company's size or on growth; they… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I think we've seen time and time again that when you have a company that has captured control over a key artery… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Where we once had a lot of independent businesses, a lot of local businesses, a lot of variety, we now actually just… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, if a business is dependent on tricking or trapping people into subscriptions, that's not a good… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Amazon has massively - and I'm trying not to use this particular word, but I can't not use it here - disrupted… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
So, we at the FTC have the benefit of getting to hear from a lot of market participants, a lot of businesses,… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
In some cases, companies may think it's worth the cost of doing business to risk violating privacy laws. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Some of the most significant breakthrough innovations have historically come from the startups and the entrepreneurs and the small guys who are… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The expanding adoption of A.I. risks further locking in the market dominance of large incumbent technology firms. A handful of powerful businesses… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
So, my job is to enforce the laws that Congress has written. And I'm very sympathetic to the idea that, you know,… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Amazon knows that a lot of small businesses live in constant terror of Amazon, because they know that with the press of… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Yeah, so the key task for antitrust enforcers is to ensure that we have a marketplace where firms can compete on the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
There are a whole bunch of ways in antitrust analysis that you can assess if a company is a monopoly. You look… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
When you have companies that are not disciplined by competition, oftentimes they can get away with abusing their customers; firms can become… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Too often fewer and fewer companies are controlling more and more of the market. And what that means is companies can start… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Even when services are good for consumers, they can hurt a whole set of other interests - be it workers, be it… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I think we need to be very wary of systems where it's the public that is carrying the burden of doing cleanup. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If you look at the antitrust lawsuit against IBM, the antitrust lawsuit against AT&T, the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, each of those ended up… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
A market in which the only ideas that are ever brought to market are the ideas that you think will be appealing to the… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I'm grateful that the FTC is viewed as a leader internationally and all credit goes to our terrific staff at the office of international… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
The FTC is entirely pro-innovation, and a lot of our work is about ensuring that companies are able to compete in a fair way… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If we want a healthier, more diverse market - and more variety in our Halloween buckets - we could start by reviving some of… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Our obligation is to preserve competition and make sure that mergers are not unlawfully lessening competition. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
In the technology markets, we went through a couple of decades where we saw over 800 acquisitions by the five big players, not a… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to me personally that monopolists, and executives associated with monopolies, would prefer that the anti-monopoly cops just go away. But that's… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I'll say, as a general matter, we follow the facts where they take us. And there are certainly matters, when they first hit my… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
At a basic level, I'm interested in imbalances in market power and how they manifest. That's something you can see not just in tech… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
