Jiaozi-loving China's new face entered the White House, and Biden's newly recruited consultants made the technology giants tremble with fear.

Zhiyuan Xin introduced him as an "anti-monopoly designer" and advocated splitting the technology giants. Biden recruited him directly into the White House. It is foreseeable that the anti-monopoly policy of the United States will be stronger in the future, and the technology giants in Silicon Valley will tremble!

Biden just completed the formation of the staff team, and six members joined the White House National Economic Council, including Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia University Law School, who will serve as the special assistant for science and technology and market competition policy.

When Biden formed the transition team in June 5438+February last year, the technology giants tried their best to "volunteer" to join many people, and the number of executives in technology companies exceeded the critics of technology monopoly. Moreover, these executives joined in their own names in order to strengthen their right to speak in business activities in the future.

At that time, the technology giants not only hoped to say "Thank God" to Trump as soon as possible, but also hoped that they would have more weights in their hands to counter the increasingly tightening anti-monopoly environment in the United States in the future.

But here he is, with the iron fist of antitrust and spin-off giants.

He should be the last person that technology giants want to see.

I'm really scared.

Wu Xiuming, aged 48, is currently the Julius Silver Chair Professor of Law and Technology at Columbia University Law School and a doctor of law at Harvard University. The university studied biochemistry at McGill University in Canada, and later transferred to biophysics as a major.

Professional research includes communication law and policy, antitrust, copyright, the first amendment of the US Constitution, merger, media industry and telecommunications.

He once proposed "network neutrality".

In his paper "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination" published in 2003, he believed that Internet service providers (ISPs) should be regarded as public facilities, and different types of network services and contents should not be treated differently.

At that time, Wu Xiuming proposed that the government should solve this problem through legislation, and the federal network neutrality rule of 20 10 was passed.

His Master Switch, The Rise and Fall of the Information Empire was published on 20 10, which was the best book selected by many multimedia magazines that year. This book describes a long "cycle" in which open information systems become rigid and closed over time, and only after destructive innovation will they be reopened.

Another book, The Great Curse, Anti-monopoly in the New Gilded Age, points out that extreme economic concentration will lead to inequality and create conditions for the emergence of extremist and nationalist leaders.

In addition, he regularly writes for mainstream media such as The New Yorker.

Some articles written by Wu Xiuming for The New Yorker.

As a banner figure of Internet enterprises' anti-monopoly, his works focus on "strengthening anti-monopoly supervision of technology giants".

Antitrust designer

In an interview with AEI on 20 19, Wu Xiuming bluntly said that the "excessive scale" of enterprises including Internet giants is a "curse" to the economy, and it is a "mistake" to allow them to acquire competitors.

"Too large" enterprises will tend to maintain the monopoly position in the market, and will eventually cause damage to the country through high prices, low wages and great influence.

Although the scale effect of the economy itself is still valid, the current rules are too loose, and it is difficult to grasp the monopoly position of these companies.

This phenomenon actually exists in all walks of life, but people obviously "prefer" to talk about the right and wrong of Internet companies.

Take Facebook as an example. Although Zuckerberg was summoned to Congress for hearing many times because of poor user privacy protection and inadequate data security protection measures, it did not actually have enough challenges and influence on Facebook. At the same time, the continuous acquisition has made its scale and strength continuously enhanced, making it more fearless.

Professor Mark Jamison, director of the Center for Public Business Studies at the University of Florida, called Wu Xiuming and other scholars who called for the splitting of large enterprises "antitrust designers".

Split technology giants

After graduating from Harvard, Wu Xiuming worked in the Office of Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice. From 65438 to 0999, he served as an assistant to Justice Stephen breyer in the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he served as the attorney general of New York State.

Steven breyer, one of the liberal justices of the US Supreme Court.

Earlier, after Biden won the election, people speculated that Wu Xiuming might "return" to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US antitrust agency. During Obama's time, he served as a senior consultant of FTC (2011-2012), but Biden directly recruited him to the White House, which made him closer to him.

However, Biden also arranged a tough role in the key position of FTC: Lena Khan.

Khan of Yale Law School once published a paper "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox", which not only criticized Amazon's anti-competitive behavior, but also strongly criticized the antitrust agencies. This paper made Khan famous overnight.

Wired comment: With the participation of Khan and Wu Xiuming, Biden's "All-Star Anti-monopoly Team" has been established!

In the past few years, Wu Xiuming and the radical forces in the Democratic Party have known each other a lot: technology giants are disappointing in protecting users' privacy and data, curbing false information on platforms, treating small competitors fairly, and controlling people in areas such as speech expression, information acquisition and shopping consumption.

He has repeatedly publicly called on the US government to take legislative and regulatory measures, and last year "publicly called for the forced separation of Facebook".

Wu Xiuming was interviewed at the 20 19 Aspen Creative Festival.

During Trump's period, the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Trade Commission conducted a one-and-a-half-year antitrust investigation on the four major Internet giants (Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook), and filed antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook last year.

At that time, some experts predicted that the ruling styles and policy directions of the two governments might not be "completely different" as the outside world imagined, and might even have a high degree of "consistency".

For example, on the issue of opposing monopoly in Silicon Valley, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party share the same goal, which will have a decisive impact on Biden's science and technology policy.

Next, the Biden administration will not only continue to push forward the two lawsuits that have been filed, but also continue to conduct anti-monopoly investigations and even file lawsuits against Amazon and Apple.

The National Economic Council is responsible for providing economic policy to the President. They work in the White House and are attached to the President's Office. Members of the Committee come from experts and scholars in various fields, and their positions and views will "directly affect" the president's economic policy.

Regarding the appointment of Wu Xiuming as a senior assistant to the president, the White House said that the work that Wu Xiuming will help Biden advance includes "solving the problem of monopoly and market influence."

The New York Times reports that Wu Xiuming's appointment shows that Biden's administration is prepared to take advantage of the scale and influence of technology giants such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, and may cooperate with Congress to strengthen the anti-monopoly law in the future.

Wu Xiuming's father, Wu Mingda, comes from Taiwan Province Province, China, and his mother, gillian Wu, is an English-Canadian. Both of them are immunologists. His father died of a brain tumor at the age of 42, and Wu Xiuming and his younger brother were raised by their mother.

He taught himself Chinese as an adult and spoke it fluently. It also helped him win the vote in the 20 14 Democratic primary of New York's deputy governor, and lost to the current New York Governor Cuomo.

He also likes jiaozi very much. On one occasion, he even flew into a rage in a restaurant, because jiaozi in the United States was terrible. Later, he wrote a special article (in Chinese) praising jiaozi in China and hoping to rebuild jiaozi's damaged reputation in the United States.

It is reported that Biden directly recruited Wu Xiuming to the White House, instead of the predicted US Federal Trade Commission, perhaps because of his radical stance on antitrust and other issues. Moreover, the position of the White House does not need to be voted by the Senate, nor does it need to worry about opposition from the party, and it can also participate more directly in the formulation of anti-monopoly policies.

In the face of such an iron-fisted role, tremble, big Tech!

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