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Europe’s Big Tech Hawks Brace for a Post-Biden Future
European ambitions to reign in the US tech giants depend on the outcome of the election—and the fate of antitrust firebrand Lina Khan.
In the Biden era, the EU found an ally in its ambitions to reign in big tech, says Max von Thun, director of Europe and Transatlantic partnerships at the Open Markets Institute. “Under Trump or really even under [former President Barack] Obama, there was this feeling that if the EU went too far, there would be a backlash from the US,” von Thun explains, meaning regulators felt that ordering companies to break-up their business was off the table. Harris, meanwhile, has so far been mute on whether she agrees with Democratic megadonor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman’s characterisation of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust policy as a “war on American business”.
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