These days, it doesn’t seem as if there is much a successful American tech company can do to avoid scrutiny from federal regulators. This is especially true since the rise of the “hipster antitrust” movement, spearheaded by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) chief antitrust enforcer, Jonathan Kanter, and Federal Trade Commission Chair, Lina Khan. This movement wants to bring back aggressive antitrust enforcement by the federal government. Rather than being undergirded by sound legal principles, many of these enforcement actions seem taken for their own sake.
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