People like her have better things to do than join a foodfight.

Because she's not an idiot.

Imagine...this Lady trying to save you from the corporations...and then the people went and vote for Trump, MTG and Boobert. I can not imagine her frustration!

@@zufalllx You're not wrong. :(

If apple doesn’t want her on a podcast…imagine the corporate donor power any opponent of hers would get.

Yes, I was impressed by that too! It’s not easy to do that, but she made it look easy.

Credit to them both. However this interview was carefully rehearsed. I applaud her efforts and the efforts of the commission but most of what she said was rather predictable.

​@@NWJF How do you know it was carefully rehearsed? (Asking sincerely.)

@@JillKnapp her replies sounded rehearsed. They did not sound conversational, they sounded prepared and contrived. Particularly her cadence and the use of certain cliches as "the American people". Phrases like this are not, to me, casual vernacular, rather they are very "safe" and "appealing". Such is language when you write a speech or, prepare taking points.

Stewart's joke, "you don't have to comment on that--just nod," makes me think he's poking fun at the agency requesting to stay 100% on script, or something.

💯💯👍🏽👍🏽

in what world? she’s lost every single antitrust case she’s brought and they’ve been completely incoherent. all that while there are real antitrust issues that are not being scrutinized

No, she isn't. She's trying to make a name for herself. Nothing she's done is "for the american people".

Working hard without knowing what the right thing is... I don't know about recently but early on, her stuff was just getting thrown out of court for being politically motivated nonsense.

Doing the right thing? Waste tax payer dollars by attacking simple bigness and not customer harm? Massive losing record. FYI some industries NEED bigness - Google Nvidia to find an example. You want the US to be competitive moving forward, u need bigness

Word same here. It's the only government agency I'm rooting for

One of the ultimate rules of comedy is hard truths! You might not always hear what you want but it'll entertain you and make you think

They also canceled the show because he was going to talk about China. Apple (the same company that bases its marketing on customer privacy) can't let their Chinese masters get upset.

That's what the best and the brightest looks like Murica, dont be afraid.

indeed

It's funny how some of the least censored news in America is aired on Comedy Central... Lol

I can assure you lawyers do not accept Monopoly money😂

I'm so glad he called apple out. We knew they were stopping him from saying something that's why he left!

@@Pats-Garage what’s your point ?

This shows how important your vote for President is. You are voting for an entire Administration.

​@@seanpatrick1243 is it just me, or do many people not take elections seriously at all? I'm so sick of reading comments that are nothing more than trash talk, as if they're discussing a football team. It's not a roast, it's about policy. It's not about personalities, the best one liners, or who you would want to have a beer with, it's about competence in a given position. President is the main aspect, but all the appointees are another not insignificant kettle of fish. FWIW, I like this FTC chair. Seems impressive imo. Hopefully her record matches her rhetoric.

What *should* Amazon charge small businesses for the services it provides? Lina Khan says here that "some small businesses have to pay one out of every two dollars to Amazon," without indicating what her agency has evaluated would be a more reasonable price for the value that Amazon provides. While the cited cost may indeed be too much, Khan is not making an argument here at all, and certainly not a quantitative one. I imagine that such arguments are made in the law suit. Rather than relying on us all to just agree that this sounds like too much without any real context, I wish she would have used this platform to make a data-based argument. Absent that, this is (a) not persuasive and (b) a poor job by Stewart asking anything resembling a tough question.

​@matthewhunt1674 Usually, when a retailer or platform is greedy, the average rate they take would be about 30%. That's 60 cents per $2 or 30 cents on the dollar. Other platforms can offer 20% or 12%. Average commission for a realtor is about 6%. The point is, sellers should be able to look for a platform with a lower rate without sacrificing their customer base. Amazon is so big that other platforms seem obscure and illegitimate. Amazon has taken advantage of this perception to raise their prices which is not only illegal, it's harmful to their customers who are both the consumers and distributors.

Raising the fees is not even the most egregious part of Amazon business practices. When a small business releases products that are trending, they find an alternative to make themselves, start competing with them, and drive them out of business.

@eugenekim9961 Borderline patent infringement, but small businesses don't have the money or the time to fight with Amazon about that.

@@eugenekim9961 Yes, happens all the time.

Cyberpunk is here, people don't want to see it

Sooo corrupt ☠️☠️☠️

U talking about fulfillment centers; the ones delivering goods to the populace that were under lock down rules? Those were deemed strategically important and likely had different oversight. Just because you didn't keep watch over the company doesn't mean no one did!

​@@z5m2 Doesn't mean anyone diddddddd, either. And, I'll bet there weren't. You're soooooooo Naive if you Truuuly don't see that maaaaaajor corruption iszzzz, by far, the more likely answer. I suspect you're either a bot, deployed to confuse, obfuscate, and cover up for big time corruption, or an actual person doing the same.

​@@z5m2And what, you accccctually belieeeeeeeve that Amazon had genuine, sincere, honest, objective oversight of **itself**????? Wowwwww, you muuuuuuust be joking.

That exact same thing has happened countless times, all over the country. A lot of businesses are forced to sign exclusive deals for Walmart if they want to be carried in those stores. It was Walmart who ended companies like RCA and Phillips, because of those exclusivity deals. They're nasty work. And since a majority of their employees are paid so little that they require public assistance, the American taxpayer helps subsidize every last bit of it.

Not unusual unfortunately.

That's just the beginning. I worked for a vendor whose primary customer was Walmart. Once they had the exclusivity deals in place, they had ultimate power over the vendor. They decided what the company did, what it sold, what prices Walmart would pay, etc. The company became a de facto arm of Walmart in everything but name and they eventually went out of business completely.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Not surprised, though. People need to remember that every purchase is a vote.

By the time regulators get to understand those stuff the damage is already done.

Well said, man.

Afraid of what money in politics WILL do? You’re either very late to the party or hopelessly optimistic about politics in the past few decades.

@@yonatanspira9773 as he said, he's not American.

lobbying is legal and a cancer to society for decades now

⁠@@yonatanspira9773You need to qualify Party and Politics with “American”. The rest of the developed world have quite stringent rules re buying-politicians / conflicts of interest / insider-trading… and immediate consequences !

>> hope for politicians who don't sell their soul to the biggest spender. But work for the people.

She will, undoubtedly, be one of the very first people Dump will oust. And, most likely, on day one.

Democrats 👍

​@@shiddykiddy-lp4dz Well, the right kind of Democrat. After all, Clinton and Obama were corporate-friendly and maintained the Reagan-Bork model Khan criticizes in the interview, and Schumer has done everything in his power (which is a lot) to stop new antitrust bills.

I thought he was way too soft on her. The FTC has been allowing corporate consolidation for decades, with some weak argument of “focusing on behaviors.”

@@nav579 Lina Khan is 35 years old and has been FTC chair for 3 years. The idea that Jon should have focused on "decades of corporate consolidation" that didn't occur under her watch, rather than what she is doing, and what "we" can do to help her, does not make any sense to me. You know how we got to this corporate oligarchy? By focusing on how bad and incompetent the "government" is, convincing ourselves that a hands off approach is better (as Lina repeatedly mentioned), then being shocked when things got even worse after the supreme court legalized bribery with Citizen's United. Idk man, just really think it's a dumb critique from you if your bigger picture goal is addressing this issue.

Thank you

Yep. He wanted to do an episode on AI and one on China and Apple said no to both.

@@regtianghaApple didn’t want Jon Stewart to ‘Think Different’ 🤣

I once worked in the corporate office for an electronics retailer, doing due diligence for regulations stuff. Y'know, CYA. I needed an MSDS (material safety data sheet) for the battery of the iPod, the FCC Declaration of Conformity (a one page document) and the UL Listing report. There are no trade secrets in these documents and I sent a request to my contact with Apple requesting these documents. They declared them confidential documents and would not send them to me. I asked again, stating that we needed to cover our liability too and just wanted to ensure our due diligence was done. Nope, these are confidential documents that they will not send to me. So I went to Apple's website and downloaded the MSDS for the battery in the iPod. Then I emailed them, stating that I got the "confidential" MSDS from their website, and I downloaded the UL Listing from UL's website (although I still needed the report), and would you please send me the one page FCC DoC page? I didn't make any friends and I never got the other two documents we needed for our due diligence, but I was left with the impression that in general the company was a pain with which to work, declaring everything "confidential" regardless of the actual sensitivity. I just imagine what the employee NDA looks like. 🤯🤯

@@regtiangha That is really bad... Like makes me lose a LOT of trust in Apple bad...

​@@jonomacdwith all due respect, you should not have had that much trust for them to begin with 😉 I get what you're saying and not meaning this to insult you, but yeah, big companies almost always bad.

Yes, so well spoken she always starts with "look." 🤪

​@@PhilipMarcYT Is that the best you could come up with? "OH no she said "look" "

@@PhilipMarcYT Literally every single person has linguistic quirks like that. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't. It only means you're more blind to it than other people are.

So that's why Jon decided to host the show again.

What has she done that is remarkable other than spout inaccurate talking points while Jon panders to her? Microsoft lawsuit. Failed. Meta lawsuit. Failed. Amazon lawsuit. Will fail spectacularly after wasting countless tax dollars. And they don’t fail because of evil corporate lawyers jamming up cases. They’re slam dunks because every accusation she brings is debunked by the most basic interpretation of the law

No company should have a monopoly! It should be competitive for all players!

She is remarkable and this was informative. Biden should be touting his ability to appoint competent people bc Trump sure couldn't.

Doesn't stop mergers. Cingular wireless 》AT&T 》 T-Mobile mergers Most predominantly, EA, buying studios and never producing the games that would directly compete with theirs

​@@EASY4V1It *should* have stopped many mergers. The problem is not anything to do with the laws on the books per se (though they could be given a spitshine to make them a bit more polished for the 21st century), but the organized effort by corporate lobbyists to defund and defang the FTC for decades. Laws don't matter if you lack either the resources or the will to try to enforce them, or an unbiased judiciary to rule on them. There's a reason the party of bug business makes such a show of saying how government is inept to justify not letting them spend any money on it. They're creating a self-fulfilling proophecy.

@paulk5670 hence why, we the people, should implore the government, aka the FTC, to restrict these from happening. It's a free market until it isn't

It doesn't stop many mergers as others said. The current position is if the company can make a case that merging and consolidating "could" lead to lower prices for of consumers then it's beneficial and goes through. In reality this isn't enforced at all and just in theory for the sake of the merger

Si buying Instagram was illegal? And they faced no repercussions?

No, we need to ask, how do we get other journalists to follow Jon's lead. Especially with regards to unregulated AI, the media has dropped the ball. Despite the fact that unregulated AI is a threat to their own industry. I am shocked by the softball pieces they do on tech companies and AI. Now we know why. Much of media is owned by tech companies like Apple or corporations chomping at accessing unregulated AI to reduce labor costs, like Disney. So they don't want journalists reporting anything negative about unregulated AI. The only negative stories they'll allow is potential killer robot stories to distract us. That needs to change, it shows how monopolistic and powerful these corporations are today when they shape the news like this.

What I gleaned from this video is that the bigger platform Jon has, the more they want to censor him.

Viral distribution.

If he is the best then he will naturally receive the most viewers over time on this platform

Because they try to censor him, Comedy Central lets him run it how ever he wants..

She is a menace to society. The only one worse is the Orange Orangutan

She nose a lot.

@@guenaeltheone8242 is true... americans constantly voted for FREE MARKET right wing capitalism. rules and regulations are COMMUNIST !

Are we?

Have you looked at her record of leadership? She's a disaster. She's lost most of her cases in court. She leads with a purely ideological bend and rarely comes with a well constructed argument. We need an FTC that uses resources effectively to regulate markets, not inhibit them.

Well, she is not like a show host or media figure so she maybe not used to speak so much publicly.

? She seems smart enough, but undeniably, outstandingly brilliant? How do you figure?

@@user-cn8nu6lq4w Every response started with "Look." She is anything but brilliant.

Buddy this is rehearsed.

@@jadcb159 I mean I think that was just nervousness. She's clearly competent though.

@@jadcb159 every response was insightful. Are you gonna hate because she uses a very common speaking pattern?

Yeah, she’s definitely a jaw-dropper. And that’s before she even flashes her pretty smile. I could’ve listened to this interview go on forever. When Jon asked her “could you stay - forever,” I was thinking, “I know exactly how you feel, Jon.”

@@danielgo3898touch grass.

So look...

Yeah, but I have a hard time believing that a lawyer with under 10 years of experience is the best person for a job like this, regardless of how smart and impressive she is.

@gheller2261 nice, she has more than a decade of experience, but I can see your point, you're incorrect , but I can see your point.

First time hearing Lina Khan speak. RESPECT!

How?? She lost every lawsuit at the expense of the taxpayers. Her loss record does not deserve praise.

ronaldlucas: She and FTC out-funded 100 to 1.

@@jdpro2222 your point. the federal judges some who were appointed by democratic presidents didn’t think she had a strong cases. She lost in the past against Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. And now she wasting more money to go after Amazon again.

Also, being aggressive means sometimes unfairly losing.

A story few Americans know, I only found out about it recently myself

So look

@@reginaldbowls7180 helpful

Needs more likes

Those deformities gave me nightmares as a child.

And then they canceled the show!

Apple is evil; what would you expect?

You got that right! I'm still digesting their audacity!

@@UkeCan1they didn’t cancel it. Jon simply walked away because of their refusal to allow that topic to be discussed. It was also very sudden. Apple thought they could control him and he simply walked away and did it anyway. Kudos to Jon.

Apple didn’t earn a $3 trillion dollar corporation worldwide for being honest.

I don't think you listened to the interview.

And she doesn't use legalese or sparkly language. She's very clear and concise and stays on point. I love this woman.

I would rather listen to her than any Hollywood stars. I think the general (smart) public wants more of these conversations being talked about.

@@fredbyoutubing Hear, hear!

Actually, everything she said, illustrates how she’s part of the problem. She’s not worried about the size of companies, she’s just worried about their behavior. So giant corporate behemoths can eat the economy. As long as their customers are treated well? Really? No concern for externalities? She’s actually describing a fundamental shift in FTC enforcement philosophy that has, on-balance, been terrible for this country over half a century.

Unfortunately trump will get rid of her right away

Ok but to what end. Yay we are constantly seeing the corruption by the rich. We've been seeing it. Black Rock, Big pharma companies, etc, so... what are the American ppl gonna do about it?? Let me guess... a whole lot of nothing.

This isn't journalism, it's a comedy show. You can tell the difference, right?

She's 35 and a scholar - we need more educated young people in gov't

I would say the vast majority of government employees are like this since they are appointed/hired to be the professional in their field and not worry about re-election. I'm not trying to downplay Lina's work (I'm a huge fan of hers), but for every MTG, there are 1000 government workers in the background working quietly to keep the ship afloat

I think most are like this. We just don't see them because they simply do their jobs and go home.

that said, I question how they are getting thru the much of a corrupt government bought and paid for by corporations.

When Lina said 'Reagan,' I replied to my computer screen, 'That figures!' What a ---- fill in your own descriptor.

Every time I bring up Reagan and his failed trickle economics plan which let these huge corporations take in such huge profits that they just buy out any competitors I get jumped on by the bootlickers. I blame Reagan for starting it but I blame 99% of politicians in both parties for taking advantage of the situation and having ZERO interest in fixing the problem. That's not even getting into how that same economics plan cut funding to education, infrastructure, social services, and countless other important programs while over funding programs like the military, leo's, and the war on drugs.

Do you hope that many average Americans will watch this? Or any interview of this length?

@@angelikalindenau943 lol...this was fairly short and done in a 'comedy' format. Better chance that more 'average' people will watch than a 3 hr interview.

Ppl forget how important regulations and the depts that enforce them is.

100% :)

1000% :) Look, don't shame me! I came here to write something "brilliant" but so many others have already done so, so this is what I've got. Seriously though, we need more young people like Ms. Khan in government. At least her and others at the FTC (can we get a doubling of the staff there, please??) aren't elected, so we are not reliant on an increasingly under-informed electorate to put them in these important positions.

It's amazing. NOBODY is talking about this stuff. Anywhere. And this is the most important stuff to talk about. Period.

Ok you need to settle down.

@@nutsackmania - easy there, tiger...let the man speak his mind.

That's why we vote for democrats

Most people working in government agencies are like Lina Khan. It’s the elected officials that are different. Career civil servants tend to be much more well intentioned and competent than politicians

So true.@@brycehouse3544

@@brycehouse3544 They're the only ones that have to pass the security clearances too

Lina khan is a 🤡

Exactly! And this should be focus of Biden campaign….don’t vote for Joe - vote for Joe’s (young, smart, focused) team.

the guy doesnt recognize himself

talk to leftists and progressives and they often cite Lina Khan as a reason they will still vote Biden if that is their plan

She's actually a pretty rare member of the administration that isn't fully tithed to corporations or corporate lobbies. I think they didn't realise how much integrity she has when they appointed her.

This is so necessary. Every time prices at the pump jump overnight, though profits are at record highs and corporations remain stable it is the little guy driving every day who takes the hit. Americans do not have any stability in today’s economy.

Was looking for this

So true! He wasn't lying when he talked about the "owners of this country"

George Carlin had so many memorable quotes but I recent tried to watch one of old hbo special and it’s so dark and bitter… this country broke his heart

The fact that she is outgunned by capital should scare the living daylights out of you! Hasn't Trump actually threatened her liberty?!

"It is refreshing to see that a government official is finally addressing the fact that ai and tech companies should be following the laws we already have". Yep. One problem, though: too little too late to save America. Sad.

Agree AND believe that the ethics & morality elements discussion are important as they should underpin the laws we have.

This needs to be on top

I'm 54. I work in tech. I love it. I consume it for my profession, I study it in my free time. Age has nothing to do with it.

100%. She and people like her are our only hope for the future. Without them these geriatric sociopaths will run us all into the ground and it will all be over.

​@@ChhesterificationAge absolutely has a LOT to do with it. At 54 you're still quite young too, in comparison to the octogenarian freaks that typically hold power.

That is an ageism.

@@Chhesterification Are you an exception or a rule?

How smart is that?

John Stewart is smart but not nearly as smart as a lot of other people and not as smart as a lot of other people who hide it better. John Oliver is arguably smarter and has recruited a lot of smart researchers. Penn and Teller are definitely some of the smartest people on TV but only on TV. And there are so many more, Aston Kuchner, Malim Bialik, Nathalie Portman, Conan O'Brian...

Dude is well above par in every conversation he's involved in. Very impressive indeed

Top 10 Jew of all time

Top 5. On Mount Rushmore.

That's Because the major news networks are monopolies

Yes, if you’d like to hear and learn more about it Robert Reich’s content is absolutely excellent on this and therelated issues. Most significantly his *free* lecture series as professor at Berkeley on wealth and poverty: youtube.com/@RBReich?si=YdxSatRZN5mO90C_

I think Oliver has addressed it in his show before.

Nope. No more celebrity presidents. Jon can stick to what he does best 😊

Jon don't want to be pres. If he did, he'd be leading the 2024 race.

Any idiot can be president, I think that's already very clear @@goldskygregor

Smooth criminal...yep. wondering when his court date is... after all he did the exact same thing as Trump.

Nah

Yes! It might help people trust the government again!

Oh, and here's another one. ALL the utility companies. My electric company didn't change their rates, but they added a $40 per month delivery charge. I mean talk about a monopoly!

​@@jasonschultz9570 we need to bring back electric co-operatives! And nonprofit hospitals!

​@@jasonschultz9570 can you change to a competing electricity company?

You can thank senator manchins daughter for that.

​@@jasonschultz9570cable is worse.

I wonder how many Americans even know about lobbying. They say it's protected under the right to petition the government, but it's basically cronies, bribes, and backroom deals. We need more awareness about lobbiests.

@@lindsaytoles2023 Hear hear!

​@lindsaytoles2023 we've known about lobbyists for decades!!!...we as a people have ignored and dropped the ball!!!..

Not just that he is genuinely a very smart person.

That Sherman Act aside was brilliant.😅

Not really 😕

Absolutely, in this case he studied up on the FTC's failing legal arguments against Microsoft and their turning a blind eye to the price fixing at Sony, and knew he needed to make a lot of vague assertions that Microsoft was guilty of something, anything. Lina Kahn is a twit with a vendetta against Microsoft from long before she got to the FTC but has cost the American taxpayers millions of dollars in her absolutely baseless legal claims against Microsoft and their purchase of ABK.

I related by marriage to someone who works in anti-trust law and there's nothing s/he enjoys more than suing really large companies and banks for violating anti-trust laws. At first I thought s/he was rather nuts, but now I have a whole new appreciation for their niche focus.