Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as a plain-language, well-conducted interview that explains what the FTC is doing about monopolization and antitrust.
What it is
FTC Chair Lina Khan sits down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to discuss the agency's work protecting consumers from unfair business practices. Topics include the FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, healthcare industry actions, and whether tech companies are racing to control AI.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2024 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec andy_ppp · 2024-04 · on “FTC challenges 'junk' patents held by 10 drugmakers, incl Novo Nordisk's Ozempic”
I’m so impressed with the FTC lately, here is an excellent interview Jon Stewart did with the FTC chair Lina Khan: [this video] I did joke I’m really surprised the vested interests selected someone competent who wants to hold these companies accountable to the public.
Recommends 8bitsrule · 2024-04 · on “Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search”
Glad to see Corey mention the Steward/Khan interview. Not only did she speak Peoplese, she pretty much sketched out (in the limited time she got) the main forces at work in the past 30 years of monopolization. Now, hoping to see FTC find their big stick. [this video]
Recommends csa · 2024-05 · on “US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster”
Most stuff not easy to describe in a few blurbs, imho. Here’s an article (gift link, so no paywall) that describes the whole situation: [LINK] Good interview with Jon Stewart: [this video] Simple examples are: - Kroger and Albertson’s (grocery stores) - Illumina and Grail (cancer detection) - Amazon for dark patterns regarding signing up for prime, and for privacy violations with Alexa and Ring - Lost challenge to Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard (good to look into, not sure about the specific case) - FTC released a framework for anti-trust that should be a regulatory win.
Recommends jauntywundrkind · 2024-07 · on “”
There's been very little that's given me hope for the future like seeing the FTC come back into it's own. Government has so many nasty gnarly aspects to it, but nominally it should be watching out for the American people. And the FTC full well ought to be the tip of the spear at keeping some balance to what would otherwise be a Thomas Piketty-style extractive stratification by the rich. It has been such a delight seeing the slumber of Reagan cast off, seeing the FTC active again. In person interviews are rarely super deep, but it's interesting seeing people get to talk out what they are up to. The interview with Linda Khan at the Daily Show in April was nice to see. [this video] Hell yeah this aw
Cites 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2024-04 · on “Jon Stewart on the False Promises of AI [video]”
[this video] Apple asked Stewart not to have Khan on a podcast. Nor would they let him do the comedic segment on AI.