DOJ to file anti-trust case against Google

 Washington Examiner:

The Justice Department will file a historic and long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Google over its allegedly anticompetitive business practices, especially how it has used its search dominance in the online advertising arena to defeat its competitors, a senior DOJ official confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

The federal lawsuit, first reported on Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal, is expected to be filed in Washington, D.C.’s district court.

The Justice Department and many state attorneys general have been investigating the tech giant for more than a year, focused on the anti-competitive conduct in Google's online advertising business fueled by its dominance in the search engine and search advertising sphere, connecting online publishers and advertisers to hundreds of millions of users, and where Google controls around 90% of global searches.

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim told the Washington Examiner in November that the Justice Department's investigation into online platforms would focus on the possibility that tech firms, such as Google, had used data they had gathered from customers to block competitors from markets they manage.

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There is more.

This revelation from Project Veritas is also interesting: 

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 In the video, which runs just under nine minutes, Project Veritas journalists sit down to several different lunches or dinners, over a couple days, with Ritesh Lakhkar, whom the video describes as a Google “Technical Program Manager, Cloud.”

In one of the more damning exchanges in the exposé, Lakhkar explains to the pair of undercover journalists why it appears the company “favor[s] the Democrats”: (emphasis added)

“Because we are in America, the wind is blowing toward Democrats. Because GOP equals Trump and Trump equals GOP.

Everybody hates it, even though GOP may have good traits, no one wants to acknowledge them right now.

So, the wind is blowing in toward Democrats, so let’s skew the results towards Democrats.

And while he went on to suggest that the trend might change, were Trump to be reelected, that seems like a blind spot on Lakhkar’s part. (In another segment, he implies that Republicans support the KKK.)

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There is more.  the program manager appears to be upset about the tech companies "playing God."  

 

 

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