FTC
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FTC is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 23, 2023 and December 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Congress gave the FTC expanded powers and mandated citizen participation”; “explanation of the FTC’s monopoly case”. It most often appears alongside FDA, 1965, 1968 Summer Olympics.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 23, 2023
- Last seen: December 17, 2024
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- 1965 (1 shared issues)
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- 1968 Summer Olympics (1 shared issues)
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- 2000 election (1 shared issues)
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- 2016 US Presidential election (1 shared issues)
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- 2023 book review contest (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grant (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- AI Art Turing Test (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
A Washington Post columnist nicknamed the group “Nader’s Raiders,” and it stuck. The Raiders decide that their first target would be the Federal Trade Commission, which Nader believed had become too cozy with the businesses it was supposed to regulate and failed to live up to its ostensible mission of protecting the American consumer. They quickly wrote and released a blistering report that, among other things, accused the FTC of being rife with “alcoholism, spectacular lassitude, office absenteeism, and incompetence by even the most modest standard.”
But Nader’s theory had legs. In the fallout from the report’s release, Congress gave the FTC expanded powers and mandated citizen participation in its decisions. His team soon ran the same playbook with, among many other things, workplace safety and air and water pollution. His team’s advocacy was instrumental in getting the Clean Air Act (1970) and Clean Water Acts (1971) passed, two of the largest pieces of environmental legislation of all time12.
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19: Good explanation of the FTC’s monopoly case against Meta by Nicholas Decker.
Inline links: explanation of the FTC’s monopoly case against Meta