I think for some time, issues of antitrust were viewed as somewhat arcane. — Lina Khan Antitrust Copy Share Image
The trajectory of the Web 2.0 era was not inevitable - it was instead shaped by a broad range of policy choices. — Lina Khan Choices Copy Share Image
We required AT&T to open up its patent vault. We ended up broking them - breaking them up. That ended up feeding… — Lina Khan Breaking Copy Share Image
We heard from employees who, because of noncompetes, were stuck in abusive workplaces. — Lina Khan Because Copy Share Image
From our perspective, as an antitrust enforcer, we're supposed to protect competition in all markets. That includes labor markets. — Lina Khan Competition 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 American Copy Share Image
If you're deceiving people through algorithms, you don't get some type of free pass because you're saying, 'Oh, the machine did it.' — Lina Khan Computers Copy Share Image
Antitrust is really about making sure that companies are succeeding by competing on the merits. — Lina Khan About 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 Business 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 Business Copy Share Image
To go all the way back, lawmakers passed the antitrust laws because they wanted to favor competition over consolidation, the basic idea… — Lina Khan Antitrust 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 Business 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,… — Lina Khan Acquisitions Copy Share Image
We've identified not just one merger, but a whole string of mergers that some of these large companies made that we believe… — Lina Khan Believe Copy Share Image
Economic liberty, not just political liberty, is at the heart of the American experiment. You're not really free if you don't have… — Lina Khan American Copy Share Image
As a law enforcer, one of the things that I think most about is deterrence. You really want to ensure that firms… — Lina Khan Behavior Copy Share Image
The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices, and Congress didn't create a closed list or say that only applies to some… — Lina Khan Create 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 Business Copy Share Image
When you say something like, 'Well, there's a lot of visceral dislike of what our agency is doing,' I think you have… — Lina Khan Country Copy Share Image
It's both exciting and unsettling to have a realistic conversation with a computer. Thanks to the rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence,… — Lina Khan Around the world Copy Share Image
In Washington, it's very easy to privilege just some set of voices and not another set of voices. And so we try… — Lina Khan Congress Copy Share Image
Microsoft had captured control over the operating system. And the reason it was able to maintain that dominance is because there was… — Lina Khan Control 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 Business Copy Share Image
When companies are actively directing their products or services at children or if those services are being used by children and they… — Lina Khan Children Copy Share Image
There's a growing recognition that the way our economy has been structured has not always been to serve people. — Lina Khan Always 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 Burden Copy Share Image
Technological breakthroughs can disrupt markets, spur economic growth, and change the nature of war and geopolitics. — Lina Khan Breakthroughs Copy Share Image
Our economy has changed significantly since 2010. Markets have changed since then. — Lina Khan Changed Copy Share Image
I actually simultaneously applied to law school and a job at the Wall Street Journal. — Lina Khan Job Copy Share Image
What we hear day-in, day-out is that people too often feel like they're not getting a fair shake in the market. — Lina Khan Fair Copy Share Image
There can be this basic indignity of being a consumer in America today. And that's what the FTC's trying to fix. — Lina Khan America Copy Share Image
There are probably deal-makers out there who wish we didn't have the antitrust laws. — Lina Khan Antitrust Copy Share Image
One reason why enforcers may not have scrutinised the impact of roll-ups previously is the relatively small size of each acquisition. Antitrust… — Lina Khan Antitrust Copy Share Image
Laws reflect values. Antitrust laws used to reflect one set of values, and then there was a change in values that led… — Lina Khan Antitrust Copy Share Image
It's incredible, once you start studying industry structure and see how much consolidation there has been across industries - in airlines, contact-lens… — Lina Khan Consolidation Copy Share Image
Congress asked us to enforce the merger laws and that is necessarily a predictive exercise. As a result, the inquiry that we… — Lina Khan Assessment Copy Share Image
