Google being accused of "anti-trust" practices

[TheButcher]

This reminds me of the 1980's anti-trust case against AT&T where it got split up , I wonder if Google is going to have to sell off some parts of their business too now that the government has opened an "Anti-trust" case against them.


"https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-a-s ... t-lawsuit/"



"The US Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a landmark lawsuit against Google that accuses the tech giant of illegally holding monopolies in search and search advertising, the culmination of a more than yearlong investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at the company, and the first such antitrust case in the tech world in decades.

The federal government alleges that Google violated antitrust laws to act as a "gatekeeper" to the internet. The complaint says the company unlawfully blocked out competitors by reaching deals with phone makers including Apple and Samsung to be the preset, default search engine on devices. Google also abused the dominance of its Android operating system to strong-arm manufacturers to preload Google's apps onto phones, the lawsuit alleges."

One thing is a given, a lot of lawyers are going to be billing hours on both sides of this case.

[Toons-man]

Google needs to be cut to size they are just way too big in search results to give any other site a chance to grow.

[gotonudecom]

Corporations and politicians need to be held accountable by the laws that are on the books.
Google, Facebook etc are breaking the law and getting away with it because they chose a side that openly breaks the law.

The second these sites, started editing submitted content, they technically lost the 230 protection as they became content editors. (excludes illegal content)

[HarryXxX]

What do you see happening when the dust settles?

[bestfreeporn]

Google has kept me up many nights trying to figure out how to optimize my sites, no sorrow from me for what they are going thru.

[Jessup]

Happy Christmas to all the legal people who will be working on this one.

[Cumslut]

What if they break it up and all our results get messed up and we lose our traffic, why wish for it to be broken up.

[blingman]

What if they break it up and all our results get messed up and we lose our traffic, why wish for it to be broken up.

neither of those will happen

[T.B.W]

The bigger you get the more scrutiny you attract, even if not justified. Never fails always is the case with big companies.

[Dallastim]

This might give Bing a chance

[misterporn]

The money and legal resources of the company can fight this one too. It's just another day in life for Google.

[gotonudecom]

This is about obeying the law, not about how it will affect YOU.

If you want to make money working with law breakers, that is up to YOU!

[BarbaraCum]

This might give Bing a chance

I hope so

[BrasSmonkey]

This might give Bing a chance

bing scrapes google!! they had a big stink over it

[dom_trev]

Corporations and politicians need to be held accountable by the laws that are on the books.
Google, Facebook etc are breaking the law and getting away with it because they chose a side that openly breaks the law.

The second these sites, started editing submitted content, they technically lost the 230 protection as they became content editors. (excludes illegal content)

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