FTC has removed more than 300 blog posts published during the leadership of the agency under the wired report, former president Leena Khan. These include posts that are important for companies like Amazon and Microsoft to handle customer data.
FTC did not respond to the remarks request.
During the years of Biden, as a chair of FTC, Khan was known as a difficult promoter of the antitrust law, trying to justify mega corporations for their ability to reduce competition in American markets. In an interview with Techcrunch, he once referred to Big Tech leaders as “mob owners”. But in the Trump era, FTC is unlikely to be cautious about Big Tech.
The deletion of these blogs can potentially violate laws on how government data is handled; Meanwhile, the behavior is in line with the ongoing campaign of Trump administration to remove certain words and phrases from public and private government documents. These words include “Black,” “disability,” “feminism,” “gender,” Latinx, “” LGBTQ, “” transgender, “” victims, “and” women, “.
