Posted on 09/09/2019 12:32:34 PM PDT by BeauBo
Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. The news follows the announcement of a joint state Facebook probe led by the attorney general of New York. Google is also reportedly facing an antitrust probe from the U.S. Department of Justice...
The bipartisan probe includes attorneys general from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. California and Alabama are not involved in the probe...
Antitrust, compared to privacy and consumer protection concerns, poses a more direct threat to these companies’ business models. If the federal or state probes find evidence of anti-competitive behavior at Google, for example, it could be compelled to make its algorithms friendlier to rivals even if it eats at its own profits. It could also be forced to spin off entire business units like YouTube.
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Figures about California.
Good luck with it, AGs. You’re going nowhere.
Forcing business units like YouTube does not mean that the bias would stop. The bias would continue at the individual units, since the ownership and management and employees would likely not change.
I will say that I would be perfectly happy if Google were completely destroyed. More importantly, it is the Executive Management that needs to be completely reamed out and destroyed. Someone who worships only money is not someone we need running around. JMO
My limited understanding of GOOGLE is this.
When you do a google search, google collects your ISP address.
When you make repeated searches from that ISP address, Google manipulates the search results so the results comport with what you have been previously searching for.
So my point is this.
Why can’t the Feds force Google to stop collecting ISP address information?
If Google has no information about a person’s prior searches, Google would not be able to manipulate the search results.
YUGE
campaign donations about to happen.
Oh.
So you are saying that evidence suppression is a fait accompli?
Since most internet activity is done over the airwaves by smart-phones why doesn’t the FCC have a say in all of this?
That’s also true of YouTube, which is owned by Google.
If you search for content on one household device, you’ll see related content when you open YouTube on another household device.
Typically, all household devices are seen as the same public IP address by other internet entities. (all your devices “hide” behind the same router/modem)
They’ll show these state AGs who had the real power, especially when they ty to run for re-election...
That makes too much sense and is probably too easy to do>
Additionally, there go the surveillance operations on American citizens.
“Google faces a new antitrust probe by 50 attorneys general”
What about the other seven?
Google may have to give up both YouTube and their Android/Fuchsia divisions if we do have a Federal antitrust probe. And it may force Facebook to sell off WhatsApp and Instagram.
That's too bad.
With leftists/anarchists/demonkkkRATs/commies.fascists, it is a fact.
We can only hope so.
But they do not worship only money: They worship leftist, fascistic, political power, too.
They are not in the slightest neutral. The mantra that, All they care about is money, is false.
If Google has no information about a person’s prior searches, Google would not be able to manipulate the search results.
why do we even need this antitrust stuff when they offer a free service and there are other options out there also for free?
I remember when nobody heard of google and they would pay web masters to put their search engine boxes on their page for each search....that is how they got their foot in the door versus the giant YAHOO at the time
why do we even need the government involved? Why do we want to punish a company that took a risk and made good business decisions over the years to get where they are today?
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