The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a voice vote for the nomination of prominent Google and Big Tech critic Jonathan Kanter to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division.
Kanter, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the division, has been a longtime critic of Alphabet’s Google, and as a lawyer in private practice, has spent years representing rivals of tech giants including Apple and Amazon, who have been suspected of positioning their own products above their competitors in order to generate higher profits.
