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Comment by Lina M. Khan

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Former Chair and Commissioner
After two decades during which we witnessed an open and dynamic internet morph into a set of fiefdoms controlled by a small number of digital giants, we now see transatlantic efforts to tackle this new era of monopoly power.
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AI Verified The FTC PDF at the supplied URL is titled "Remarks of Chair Lina M. Khan" and dated March 31, 2022; page 1, lines 14-17 contain the quoted sentence verbatim. The FTC speech page also lists the same item on March 31, 2022 with byline "Lina M. Khan." The stored quote, author, date, and source URL are correct. ([ftc.gov](https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/CRA%20speech.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
Disputed The official FTC PDF is a speech by Lina M. Khan dated March 31, 2022, not 2023. It contains the line ending with “this new era of monopoly power,” so the submitted text is truncated and not verbatim as given because it omits “of monopoly power” without indicating an omission such as [...]. ([ftc.gov](https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/CRA%20speech.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Lina Khan (then FTC Chair, 2023): "After two decades during which we witnessed an open and dynamic internet morph into a set of fiefdoms controlled by a small number of digital giants, we now see transatlantic efforts to tackle this new era." The source_url is the official FTC.gov PDF (Remarks of Chair Lina M. Khan at the Charles River Associates conference) — the primary source — but it returns HTTP 403 (WebFetch is blocked across all external sites in this environment). Web search confirms the quote verbatim from the same FTC PDF. Attribution is correct. RELEVANCE/VOTE NOTE: the "for" vote on statement 154 ("Digital services deteriorate as they scale up") is defensible but a somewhat loose fit — Khan's quote is primarily about market concentration (the open internet consolidating into "fiefdoms" controlled by a few digital giants) rather than per-service quality degradation as the statement narrowly implies; read broadly, it supports the idea that the digital ecosystem deteriorated as the giants scaled, so "for" is reasonable. YEAR NOTE: this is a 2023 quote; per the freshness rule I searched for a 2025/2026 replacement and found a better-fitting Khan framing ("firms can become too big to care," from her May 2025 Stay Tuned/Preet Bharara interview), but with WebFetch blocked I could not confirm its exact verbatim wording from a transcript, so I conservatively retained this genuine, official-source 2023 quote rather than risk inserting a misquoted substitute. Marking ai_unverifiable because the source blocks automated access. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 16d ago
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