Why Amazon’s Online Marketplace Drew FTC Scrutiny

Lina Khan drew attention as a law student in 2017 with an article arguing for a broad re-imagining of US antitrust law. The company she focused on was Amazon.com Inc. Now Khan is chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, which has sanctioned Amazon for privacy lapses and is expected to sue the company for antitrust violations this week. Since much of US antitrust law is more than a century old, written for a very different economy, the FTC’s case …

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