Biden Adviser Tim Wu To Leave After Shaping Antitrust Policy

White House adviser Tim Wu, who worked to shape the Biden administration's agenda to increase economic competition, is set to leave his position in the coming months, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the move. From a report: Wu is expected to return to antitrust law at Columbia Law School after serving as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy since March 2021. He was the key architect behind President Joe Biden's executive order to bolster competition last year, which included 72 initiatives by more than a dozen federal agencies. The administration focused on improving competition within industries including technology, health care and agriculture.

Sorry to see him go. The job is not done yet

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Tim Wu has warned about the "Attention Merchants," and tricks of Cable and Telco's to rip off customers by corralling customers into money collection pits for themselves.

Thank you, Tim, for your thoughtful ideas and service. Hopefully, the Biden Administration and eventually Congress will be able to fully implement your ideas to appropriately cripple organizations that would eliminate competition in their markets via technology or economic power.

Let's hope that "network neutrality" becomes the law of the land.

And What Was Accomplished?

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My headline is not directed at Tim Wu - I'm grateful for his work before and during his tenure as an adviser to Biden. The article points out that Wu was the key architect behind 72 executive orders and that he created a new competition council within the government. However, the article never stated what those executive orders and the council plan to do to encourage competition. I know the wheels of government turn very slowly, but can't anyone within the administration provide even a hint of what to expect? This administration has been promising a lot but has been very quiet on what it's actually accomplishing. This isn't meant to be an anti-Biden rant, I just feel like this administration is doing a terrible job of informing the public of the specifics of their plans and the progress that they've made toward their goals.

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Here's a bit more detailed explainer on what Tim Wu's policies: The Biden Antitrust Revolution [newyorker.com]

But I agree fully that Democrats in general are terrible at bragging about what they actually have done.

Most importantly

[Anonymous Crowded]

Whether or not he does it later will remain to be seen, but the fact that he's going back into academia rather than corporate private sector or into a PAC means that any and all work he's done isn't immediately invalidated, like so many people over the years . . .

Good for him.